Published on 03/07/26 at 12:35 GMT: The French president is due to visit Syria early this week, days after a deadly bombing in Damascus on 2 July. As well as business leaders keen to tap into the local market, the economic delegation should include several top executives from state-owned companies, covering sectors ranging from energy to defence.
As the US and Iran trade strikes once again, the Houthis recently announced the creation of its “General Mobilisation Forces”, modeled on Iran’s state-backed Basij militia. Intelligence Online has gathered details on the organisation, whose aim is to tighten control over the population.
Following a parliamentary report reviewing Australian government funding for NGO research, one of the country’s leading defence think-tanks will now have to compete for a chunk of its funding. China is hoping that feuds between ASPI, government officials and the academic community will see its bête noire brought to heel.
A lieutenant-colonel in the French army, who is qualified to supervise PhD research, is at the centre of a somewhat confusing situation concerning the army’s future history centre.
US officials are pressing European authorities for guarantees over immigration controls. In a barely veiled threat, Washington has said it could remove these countries from the Visa Waiver Program administered by DHS and the State Department if they do not meet its demands.
Thanks to unprecedented cooperation, EU member states’ and Kyiv intelligence services have found that Turkey has become a hub for Russia’s shadow fleet. A network of companies in Istanbul now provides Moscow’s preferred way to smuggle oil, an activity that remains legal under Turkish law.
The Russian former head of RT France, who now works for far-right billionaire Vincent Bolloré’s media group, played a minor role in a film praising Russia’s FSB domestic intelligence service.
Reduced by purges to just two members, the supreme body of the People’s Liberation Army is to be reconstituted before the army’s centenary in 2027. The party leadership wants to dispel the image of a military institution mired in speculation and to demonstrate that the purge remains on course.
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