Saudi Arabia's new King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud appointed his son Mohamed bin Salman as defence minister and director of the royal court on January 23, handing him responsibility for the security woes currently facing the kingdom.
As Intelligence Online revealed recently (IOL 728), Turkey's intelligence chief Hakan Fidan is going to run for office in Turkey's forthcoming general elections. The choice of his interim successor illustrates Ankara's priorities.
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Recent operations against jihadist groups by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are having an impact on Saudia's own operations against Iran.
The reconciliation between Tehran and the Palestinian organisation Hamas has been sealed with the signing of a weapons shipments deal, according to Intelligence Online's sources.
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The major purge underway inside China's security apparatus could lead to a recasting of roles in Chinese intelligence.
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The US Department of Treasury is to centralise information obtained from financial intelligence units it has helped to create in [...]
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The 3rd Departement of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), dedicated to electronic interception, has launched a vast redeployment project to [...]
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Although Ankara is officially preparing a formal request for the extradition of the influential US-based imam Fethullah Gulen, Turkey’s Prime [...]
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Mubarak al-Khaili, the head of the new Interpol created by [...]
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Robert Cardillo, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), [...]
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The GIP Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency, cancelled the visit [...]
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James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is continuing [...]
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Oussama Askar, who was appointed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [...]
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Brian Crozier has been appointed head of the intelligence directorate [...]
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Bertrand Besancenot is expected to step down as the French [...]
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Currently deployed almost to the limits of its operational capacity [...]
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While its troops are heavily deployed along the country's southern [...]
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Recent revelations of the death of an engineer working for [...]
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The border control division of Kazakhstan's KGB equivalent, the KNB, [...]
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Negotiations between the Kremlin and Tehran on an "oil for industrial goods" barter deal are totally blocked. Moscow cannot find buyers for the oil in third-party countries which are worried about US reaction.
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US private military companies are lining up to compete for State Department contracts to train and equip African armies.
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A complaint against South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) that was filed to the US District Court for the [...]
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The private investigation firm Quintel Intelligence accompanied Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta during his trial for crimes against humanity before the [...]
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The Pentagon is keen to relaunch military cooperation with Yemen as soon as the political situation in the country becomes [...]
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Kela Intelligence, which used to the biggest private investigation firm operated by former Israeli intelligence agents in New York, now has a competitor – founded by former staff.
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After hard times in 2014, Gilles Sacaze and Frederic Gallois have closed their French private security firm Gallice and will operate out of Ireland, where they own a subsidiary.
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To win the UAE airports biometric checks contract on January [...]
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The Czech Republic is heavily involved in efforts to support [...]
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A merger of three companies attached to the French defence [...]
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Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, the former British security and counter-terrorism minister [...]
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Robert Riegle stepped down as senior vice-president for business development [...]
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The Soufan Group, the US consulting firm that specialises in [...]
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K2, the corporate intelligence firm founded by Jules Kroll and [...]
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Kroll is keen to re-establish itself as the market leader [...]
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Helen Liddell, who became the chair of the private investigation [...]
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Floyd Woodrow, the former SAS officer who was director of [...]
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Risk Advisory Group, the corporate intelligence and private security firm [...]
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Russian connection - To help it break into the mining industry in the Western Balkans, the Balkan Mining Group (BMG) [...]
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Hazza bin Zayed, national security advisor to his elder brother, [...]
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Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister under Jacques [...]
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Mohammed Dahlan, the former head of preventive security of Fatah, [...]
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Computer incident detection and response companies will have to comply with new rules requiring them to be based in France.
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