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Intelligence Online has learned that five French volunteers belonging to SOS Chrétiens d'Orient - a French NGO historically in agreement [...]

At odds with the West, Russia is looking for new allies. Military assistance, industrial and academic cooperation, currency and technology transfers plus other goodwill gestures: North Korea is emerging as a new partner of choice for Moscow, whose diplomats have been intensively courting their counterparts in Pyongyang since the spring of 2022. [...]

The Ministry of State Security (MSS or Guoanbu) thought it had all the cards in hand. After more than a year of debate, it had succeeded in getting plans to set up an international network of Chinese private security companies [...]

The deal was clinched during the visit of a Russian government delegation to Pyongyang from 17 to 20 November (IO, [...]

A Paris court is due to deliver its verdict on 7 March after the two-week trial of Bernard Squarcini, 68, and [...]

The government instability that followed the dissolution of France's National Assembly in June has prevented the adoption of a new [...]

The Vietnamese People's Army recently issued several invitations to tender to equip its specialised electronic warfare directorate, headed by General [...]

Washington/Dubai - Paul Manafort hunts fresh clients in EmiratesDonald Trump's former lawyer and campaign manager is exploring new markets. According [...]

As global strategic rivalries return to the fore - in Ukraine, Gaza, the Taiwan Straight and in Africa, where Russia is a force to be reckoned with - accumulating crises are influencing the spy-satellite power players: who observes what, who sets up where, who sows alliances with whom and, increasingly, who releases what data publicly.The upshot is that the targets selected for observation, the countries being courted, and the NGOs and broadcasters being brought into the loop all provide insight into the major space players' strategies and focal points. [...]

Several due diligence requests commissioned by Western investors are underway to assess the strategic Mykolaiv Alumina Plant in southern Ukraine, which has been under Ukrainian state control since February 2023.It produces produces aluminium oxide, or alumina, a raw material used in [...]

Former French prime minister Michel Barnier, whose 5 December resignation made him the shortest holder of that post since the [...]

Late last month, barzaniwatch.com rushed to report that the Iraqi Kurdistan region had hired a new consultant specialised in government [...]

Neo Space Group (NSG)'s purchase of Airbus Group's UP42 platform, as announced on 3 December, fills a very important political [...]

December is traditionally a good time to present reports, but the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is conspicuously [...]

Paris and Abu Dhabi have for weeks been discussing the Emirates' possible purchase of another batch of Rafale fighter jets [...]

The French Ministry of the Interior regularly rejects French nationality applications from foreign nationals living in France, on the grounds that they are not "loyal" to the country. Chinese, Russian, Colombian, Kurdish and Algerian citizens have all faced rejection on this basis. The refusal is based on memos from the French domestic intelligence service (DGSI), which allege, for example, close links with a foreign intelligence service, but without giving any further details. French courts are thus becoming increasingly fussy about the content of those memos. [...]

The postponement until further notice of the annual hearings devoted to global threats to US territory has shown up diverging approaches on the part of the government agencies concerned at a time of heightened political tension. Although the respective heads [...]

It's one of the very few places where a Western military officer could have a conversation, and a courteous one [...]

The former president of Russian aluminium group EN+, Maxim Sokov, has been supporting a Dubai-based litigation funding startup led by [...]

Russia - Kremlin sends ever more Bashkir men to war to avoid general mobilisationThe war in Ukraine is being sorely [...]