After announcing a blockade of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, the Houthis are currently reorganising their military capabilities in key areas of western and northern Yemen.
China's fake documents market has moved well beyond local ID mills into a cyber, transnational network that has alerted China's state security organs.
Chao Yi-Long, who has been negotiating a semiconductor venture with Muscat, abandoned a similar project in the UAE after government-commissioned due diligence raised concerns. Last year Chao's Emirati business partner filed an official legal warning against him.
French defence firm Alta Ares is up against Ukrainian competitors who benefit from a more efficient industrial base and produce interceptor drones at significantly lower manufacturing costs than it does.
Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous places to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. As the summer break approaches, Intelligence Online this week heads to Marseille and Nice, where French and allied spies are stepping up arduous training sessions around the sun-drenched beaches.
The attorney, who is also currently representing the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, has recently taken on several intelligence-linked clients. One of them is a Republican congressional candidate working at building a liaison between Washington and Havana.
A French Senate official was forced into compulsory retirement in 2023 after being accused by the country's domestic intelligence service of passing on "strategic" information to North Korea. Although that case was dropped, a court has rejected the official's request for reinstatement.
A Ukrainian woman who arrived in Nice on a flight from Chisinau in May was unable to discover the French Riviera in its summer splendour after officials denied her access to the territory.
Ten years after the construction of the famous site in Wuhan, China is finishing the buildings of a new high-security laboratory at the prestigious Sun Yat-sen University. The project has been entrusted to a renowned researcher from the People's Liberation Army.
Ammunition manufactured in Brazil for the Saudi army is now being sold in Houthi-controlled arms markets in Sana’a. Intelligence Online has mapped the routes by which it is being transported to rebel-held territories.
Investigations into drone maker Euro Tunnels, which supplies the Magura UA bomber model, point to power struggles around former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
Videos and photos seen by Intelligence Online show that brand-new pistols and assault rifles made by an Abu Dhabi arms manufacturer are increasingly being sold in Houthi-controlled areas.
Moscow is stepping up its drone attacks as it tries to overwhelm Kyiv's air defence systems. Ukrainian low-cost interceptors remain essential, but are no longer enough to counter Russia's airborne threat.
The Pakistani defence industry is looking to make the most of the country's diplomatic momentum. One private firm has the ambition of competing with China in a sector encountering high international demand, especially in Ukraine.
Published on 27/07/26 at 13:55 GMT: After being held in custody by the DGSI domestic intelligence service, Pierre-Henri Chuet, who formerly flew Rafale jets in France's naval aviation force, has been placed under judicial supervision and formally charged over training pilots of the People's Liberation Army.
Published on 28/07/26 at 17:35 GMT: With its partners Knack, Le Soir and Follow the Money, our sister publication La Lettre has investigated a Canadian woman of Chinese origin arrested at NATO military headquarters in Belgium this week. She had undertaken several internships, most recently with the Alliance's cyber unit.
Behind the rapid warming of ties between China and Syria lies a sensitive issue: the fate of 20,000 Uighurs who have settled in the country. While Beijing makes its investments conditional on limiting the community's rights, Damascus maintains a deliberate ambiguity.
Despite being under electronic surveillance since the Mindich affair, former presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak has been meeting a slew of Ukrainian security officials.
Russia's federal government is leaving companies to protect their own infrastructure from Ukrainian strikes in a move that conceals the country's struggling national air defences.
In the wake of the Kazan summit, the Russian embassy in Phnom Penh is keen to deepen bilateral military cooperation, with a focus on maritime access.
Published on 29/07/26 at 12:00 GMT: Allegations have emerged concerning repeated breaches of security regulations at the French embassy in Bangui, which is currently headed by ambassador Bruno Foucher, a heavyweight of the French diplomatic corps.
French cyber intelligence agencies have observed an increase in offers from cyber criminals looking to recruit personnel from law enforcement agencies and intelligence services. Moscow is suspected of being behind some of these job offers.
The company has hired the services of a lobbying firm as it seeks to regain procurement opportunities with US agencies.
Documents show businessman Chao Yi-Long tried to form an investor consortium in Muscat earlier this year in a bid to acquire a stake in Chinese-held microchip designer Imagination Technologies. It was the first step in a plan to redomicile the firm, which has been under scrutiny by UK lawmakers.
New intelligence specialists, a strengthened Latin America team and military cooperation: regardless of the difficulties in relations between the two countries, Washington is quietly bolstering its security presence in the British capital.
Moldova-born businessman Alex Sekler claims to have collected dozens of complaints against CGI Group, following a publicity drive against the firm, its founder Zvika Nave, and its listed president, former Shin Bet head Yaakov Peri.
The Politburo convened a meeting in May with representatives from China’s foreign affairs and business communities to rally diplomats and the diaspora against extraterritorial legislation, primarily from the US and Europe, which threatens the interests of Chinese firms and the Party.
Rivalries between Russian intelligence agencies are intensifying against a backdrop of slow progress on the front lines in Ukraine, economic tensions, and heightened security risks.
The Chinese Communist Party is preparing to deploy elite police units in Central Europe to protect Chinese interests. This move, which comes as tensions between China and the European Union are running high, will also serve to establish contingents to monitor and influence the region.
For the first time ever, the UAE carried out direct strikes against Iran at the height of the conflict. But faced with urgent operational needs, Abu Dhabi turned to foreign platforms, whilst those developed by its own EDGE Group remained on the sidelines.
John Kiriakou has become prominent in the social media sphere, even as he continues intelligence-related work in the private sector.
The French foreign intelligence agency had this month to call back three of its officiers based in Tblisi after Georgia's State Security Service exposed the DGSE's recruitment of a key figure close to former PM Bidzina Ivanishvili, sparking a rift between the countries.
The United Arab Emirates has secured exclusive access to the Shahed drone interceptors made by Ukraine's Skyfall, beating out Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The first deliveries arrived last week, but their deployment is hampered by a lack of operators and incomplete integration into local command systems.
A key ally of US President Donald Trump, Sergio Gor is now a vital liaison for Central Asian governments seeking to curry favour with Washington. Currently US ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asia born, the diplomat born in Tashkent has become a key liaison between the region and US business interests.
Based in the United Arab Emirates and presented as a multilateral advisory centre for countering extremism, Hedayah is consolidating its position as a key player in the country’s major diplomatic strategies.
A comparative study on China's informational campaigns led in all G7 countries and published in late May, recommends the setting up of a task force to fight common weaknesses, and particularly at local level.
Sources on Japan’s Okinawa island, which hosts numerous US military bases, reported to the Japanese agency responsible for countering foreign interference that in late 2025, pseudo-academic activity in China related to “Ryukyu studies” increased, with the aim of promoting a pro-independence narrative.
GAMI and SAMI, the bodies set up by Mohammed bin Salman to equip Saudi Arabia’s defence forces, are under increasing internal pressure. Weakened by Iranian attacks, the Saudi national oil company Aramco is looking to set up its own anti-drone unit, having already developed in-house programmes in the naval and secure telecoms sectors.
The UK's anti-corruption agency's investigation into the strategic British signals intelligence firm Ultra Electronics has indirectly revealed highly influential business networks in Oman.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has capitalised on Washington’s ambiguous stance on Taiwan to implement a discreet strategic overhaul. Lawmakers, journalists, and media outlets from Japan and other non-US Western democracies that express solidarity with either Taiwan or the Lai Ching-te administration are being monitored and may be barred from entering China.
De-anonymising Starlink users, who are on the rise in most conflict zones, is fast becoming a lucrative business in the field of global cyber. A Cypriot-Israeli company, backed by a successful supplier of Israeli cyber tools to Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, has seized this new opportunity.
Through a little-known foundation, the Ukrainian State Special Transport Service has enlisted the services of a longtime US energy executive with business experience in Ukraine.
During his nomination hearing to head the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Michael Vance told the Senate Intelligence Committee that his unusually political essay criticising several European countries, was consistent with current US foreign policy.
From new appointments to job extensions, France's foreign intelligence service is making its final staff adjustments ahead of next year's presidential election.
In their reports submitted on the eve of Japan's intelligence reform, the country's ruling party and the House of Councillors' Research Office strongly emphasised the need to draw on foreign expertise given Japanese intelligence agencies' serious shortcomings. Alongside Five Eyes, France is regularly cited as a model.
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