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Spotlight | Cyprus, France, Israel
France strengthens Middle East interceptions apparatus to cover Israel-Palestine crisis

The Cyprus resort of Paphos is home to a French interceptions facility currently being reinforced as the crisis in the Middle East deepens. France is also looking to beef up its analysis as it starts to communicate more on its intelligence.

Spotlight | Israel, Russia, Ukraine
Tel Aviv changes tune on military support to Kyiv

Russia's reaction to the Hamas attack on 7 October has brought back to light its divisions with Israel. In reality, Intelligence Online can reveal that Israel had already begun to harden its line on Moscow, starting with military and industrial support to Ukraine.

Turkey
Foreign Minister Fidan still pulls the strings at MIT

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan retains unwavering influence over the intelligence service, the MIT, which he headed for eight years.

The Intelligence Gazette
No new AUKUS members, DGSE renovations, Beijing watching IDF, GIGN and RAID on France-Canada flights

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United KingdomOpposition to AUKUS expansion over intelligence technologies

FranceFurther refurbishment for DGSE before relocation

China/IsraelBeijing eyes on Baladia City training centre

FranceArmed GIGN and RAID officers board France-Canada flights after 15 years of talks

France, Russia
French intelligence delves back into Chechen diaspora

At a time of heightened terrorism threat, the main exiled Chechen leaders are refocusing on radicalisation prevention among their youth, an issue that had been put on the back burner in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Spotlight | Israel, Russia, Syria
Western spy agencies worried by Russian delivery of Israeli-designed drones to Syria

The intelligence services of several countries in the global coalition operating in Syria and Iraq are keeping a close eye on ISR drones that Moscow is sending to Damascus, much to Israel's fury.

United States
Washington squares up to consequences of Israeli intelligence failures

The Hamas attack on 7 October and its repercussions will have a bearing on heated debate in the US about reauthorising interceptions, initially conceived as a weapon in the fight against terrorism.

Israel, United States
Hamas attack in Gaza puts US imagery rules to the test

Recent conflicts, especially Ukraine, have accustomed consumers to a drumbeat of precise spatial imagery. But the Hamas offensive reasserts the particular nature of Israeli territory in US law.

The Intelligence Gazette
Darmanin calls off Saudi trip, Kremlin's secret messages, Irsem, Reznikov's future, Universities in Hong Kong

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Paris, Moscow, Kyiv and Hong Kong.

FranceNo trip to Riyadh for interior minister Darmanin

MoscowValeri Tikhonov's new deputy

FranceDefence minister sacks IRSEM director

UkraineFormer defence minister facing uncertain future

Hong KongCP's population target behind researcher recruitment scheme

Georgia
Georgia tackles overhaul of anti-corruption regulations

To meet the US and EU's good governance standards, Georgia, in the midst of political turmoil, is trying to agree on de-oligarchisation and anti-corruption regulations similar to those adopted by Kyiv. Its intelligence community, also under scrutiny, is hoping to play a part.

Europe, Ukraine, United States
NATO seeks to consolidate position in Ukraine

With the war in Ukraine taking up their energy, NATO officials have loudly condemned Russia. While alliance member states are in charge of logistics and the military response to the conflict, NATO is looking to consolidate its long-term position in Kyiv.