Israel, Palestine, Qatar
Ramallah's banking moguls turn backs on Qatari funds for fear of sanctions

Israel, Qatar
Tus Airways flights add towards normalisation of Qatari-Israeli relations

While Qatar has yet to enter the Abraham Accords, the FIFA World Cup has provided for an unprecedented Qatari-Israeli rapprochement, with Israeli fans in Doha for the event. Many have come on flights run by Tus Airways.

The Intelligence Gazette
GCHQ's cyber academy, Kochavi in Manama, Li Keqiang's succession, DGSI training

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Beijing via Manama and Paris.

ChinaXi Jinping's PM choices both from security world

United KingdomMoD staffs new Defence Cyber Academy

FranceDGSI to oversee inter-service intelligence training

Israel/BahrainTel Aviv seals security deal with Manama

FrancePro digital sovereignty lobby headed by former Huawei consultant

Israel
Israeli intelligence services shine in Palestinian prisoners' recapture

After the escape of six Palestinian prisoners on 6 September, Israel's prime minister Naftali Bennett turned their recapture into a national priority, counting on the country's intelligence services to find and arrest them.

Qatar, Russia
Qatar's special forces train in Moscow for next year's football World Cup

Qatar, which is keen to give a faultless performance as organiser and host of the 2022 football World Cup, has asked Russia to help it train and toughen up its internal security forces.

Egypt, Lebanon
Egyptian intelligence approaches Hezbollah to protect Gaza ceasefire

Stability in the Palestinian territories is high on the Egyptian spy chief's agenda and his services have struck up secret talks with Hezbollah in the hope the Shia movement will call for calm among Gaza's embattled factions.

Israel, Palestine
Doha hosts highly charged secret ceasefire talks

As the leading regional powers meet in Doha to try to organise a ceasefire, the new cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinian territories is following its own logic on the ground, taking it outside the ambit of the traditional negotiations between the master spies.

Iran, Palestine
Hamas launches charm offensive on Tehran

Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh has recently been trying to strengthen ties with Tehran in the context of Israel's [...]