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Unsurprisingly, the result of the call for tender for the equipment of French prisons with anti-drone systems (IO, 31/05/21), which

Turkish ex-diplomat turned consultant Mehmet Ogutçu has been paying particular attention to the recent chaos in Kazakhstan. Head of the

According to our sources, Laurent Nunez, France's National Coordinator for Intelligence and the Fight Against Terrorism (CNRLT) is poised to

Still burned by the events that shook his court in 2021 (IO, 07/04/21), King Abdullah II rang the New Year

The launch in the coming weeks of an alliance of 28 companies under Sberbank's leadership should enable Alexander Vedyakhin, the

The latest cohort of Legion of Honour recipients signed by Emmanuel Macron on 31 December included the quiet but influential lawyer and businessman Mohamed bin Laden. President of the Saudi-French Business Council and now an officer of France's most prestigious

Airbus Defence & Space (ADS) is to install a new communications ciphering system for the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

China, the world's largest importer of Iraqi oil, has been very open about its energy ambitions in Iraq (IO, 08/09/21),

The newly established Independent Oversight Board (Unabhangiger Kontrollrat - UKr) has been overseeing the work of the BND, Germany's foreign

On 6 January, the Til Koçer border crossing between Syria and Iraq, which had been closed for several years, finally

The scale and suddenness of the ongoing protests in several Kazakh regions has led the country's oligarchs to flee abroad

Former French prime minister François Fillon, who became an independent director of petrochemicals group SIBUR (IO, 05/10/21) on 17 December,

Laurent Nunez, France's National Coordinator for Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, felt reassured when he was questioned by National Assembly members carrying out an inquiry into national resilience on 8 December. A week earlier, according to our sources, prime minister Jean Castex

At the end of December 2021, the French executive decided to fight back against the Russian private military group Wagner's

Korea Defense Industry Association (KDIA) was one of the first, along with China's Norinco, to confirm its participation in the

Thrown headlong into its fight against Russian narratives, which it was able from 4 to 6 January to put to

Tehran was quick to act following the death last month of Hassan Erlou, the Iranian ambassador to Yemen who played

The small world of French corporate intelligence noted that New Year's greetings from Axis & Co, the corporate intelligence company

National Security Bureau (NSB) chief Ali Mamlouk, who was once unchallenged as Syria's spy chief, seems to have dropped off the radar in recent months. His wide-ranging area of responsibility once constituted external matters such as regional reconciliation and Syria's

At a time when Western countries are developing their 5G networks, intelligence services are increasingly concerned about the impact of the new technology on their interception capacities, with Wi-Fi interceptors already confounded by recent technological innovations.Wi-Fi interception devices work by