Khaled Mechaal

The Intelligence Gazette
CIS, UK counter state threats bill, Palestine-Algeria

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 Paris via Moscow.

Palestine-AlgeriaMaster spy Noureddine Mekri takes a stab at Palestinian reconciliation

United KingdomChristine Lee affair sparks Tom Tugendhat's push for draft bill on counter state threats

Russia'Compatriot' think-tank receives award

Afghanistan, Iran, Russia
Moscow and Tehran move pawns in Kabul

While Washington watches on anxiously, Russia and Iran are strengthening their support to the Taliban.

Saudi Arabia
To counter Iran, Riyadh pacts with Brotherhood

The Saudi Arabian-Qatari summit in Mecca on July 8 sealed the strategic rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Palestine
Islamic Jihad strapped for cash

Palestine's Islamic Jihad, headed by Ramadan Shallah, is in the [...]

Iran
Tehran agrees plan to arm Hamas

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.

Egypt, Palestine
Abbas and Sisi join forces against Hamas

At a meeting at the Al Etihadia Palace in Cairo on January 14, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi resolved to tighten their security grip on Hamas.

Iran
Tough negotiations for Hamas

For the second time in a matter of weeks (IOL [...]

Iran
Hamas tries to woo back Iran's Mullahs

Cash-strapped Hamas sent a delegation to Tehran on December 8 [...]

Palestine, Qatar
Abbas accuses Hamas of coup attempt

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has claimed Hamas plotted to take power in the West Bank during Israel's Operation Protective Edge.

Qatar
Qatar: Abbas, Meshaal talk reconciliation

In a private meeting in Doha, the president of the Palestinian authority and the head of Hamas' political bureau laid down the framework for reconciliation between the two movements.

Gaza strip
No friends for unloved Hamas

Deprived of fuel by the Egyptian blockade at a time [...]

Lebanon
Hamas-Hezbollah: old allies go to war

When Hezbollah kicked Hamas out of southern Beirut last month, the move highlighted a two-year-old conflict between the two militia movements.

Gaza strip, Israel
Israeli intelligence right about Meshaal

Khaled Mechaal's reappointment as the head of Hamas on April [...]

Egypt
The General Intelligence Service

The General Intelligence Service escorted Hamas strategist Khaled Mechaal to [...]

Gaza strip
Israel keeps tabs on Meshaal

The Israeli intelligence community thinks it is premature to imagine [...]

Egypt
Mourad Mowafi

Mourad Mowafi, the head of Egypt's General Intelligence service, has [...]

Palestine
Al-Aqsa Protectors, Hamas' secret militia

In the throes of a major political and strategic realignment, Hamas has set up the Al-Aqsa Protectors, a new armed group with which it has no official links.