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As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, the world has gradually come to learn of the role its intelligence services - generously fed with US technical intelligence - play in its military action behind the scenes. In Ukraine, their special units

The reform of the Uzbek constitution remains a priority for President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who won another term in office in

The Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa wants to use the Mumtalakat sovereign wealth fund

Since Russia launched its assault on Ukraine, all eyes have been on the Russian military - its use of drones from Iran, manufacturing new Russian drones, the missing components, the complicated import and export paths... Intelligence services as such have

According to information we have gathered, the changing structure of the CIA (IO, 21/12/22) into mission centres for analysts, field officers

Led since June by Canadian lawyer Fra' John Dunlap, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta - or more succinctly the Order of Malta - is more involved in Ukraine now than

According to two well-placed sources in the Chinese security apparatus, President Xi Jinping has asked Ding Xuexiang, Wang Huning and

Meta's Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry, published on 15 December, heralds a turning point for open source intelligence (OSINT) specialists. Most of the companies named in the report, and subsequently banned by Facebook's parent company, are OSINT firms.The report

Chinese Huawei has reportedly lost the ticket to provide the Turkish armed forces (TSK) with data network services, currently provided

Members of President Ilham Aliyev's family are often rewarded for their efforts to polish Azerbaijan's image abroad. Aliyev's sister-in-law, Nargiz Pashayeva, was for example awarded the honorary Sharaf Order on 13 December. Pashayeva, a career academic, has long been the

At the Tel Aviv Hilton on 6 December, a networking event organised by the Abrahamic Business Circle served as an

Winemaking in Crimea is a highly symbolic affair. As a result, ownership of the vineyards that produce the peninsula's emblematic wines is a thorny matter: since 2014, local Russian-appointed authorities have sought to reinforce their control over these lands, still

Officers of the CIA and the DEA, the US anti-drug agency, and European intelligence services based in Bangkok have been on tenterhooks since

France has been calling on its networks to back its preferred candidate to fill the power vacuum facing Lebanon for the past few months: commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), Joseph Aoun. It has been coordinating its efforts with

Abu Dhabi and the Aden-based Yemeni government, represented by Defence Minister Mohsen Al Dairi, signed a new military, security and counterterrorism

Pope Francis is carving out a role for himself as a diplomat, busy on all fronts, but does that by

Croatia's €72m order for the Mistral-3 short range missile from France's MBDA, announced on 9 December, is the latest in a

Qatar International Court, Qatar's financial court, handed down a ruling in favour of Lebanon's Bank Audi on 24 November after a counterclaim from

According to our sources, the corporate intelligence and techno-legal consulting firm JS Held is poised to announce the appointment of two heavyweight

After promoting Li Shulei from vice director to director of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s propaganda arm at the end