Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
The Trump administration is considering military action against Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the Sahel, in what could mark a significant expansion of US counterterrorism operations in Africa. As
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Japan has embarked on the most significant restructuring of its intelligence and national security system since the end of World War II, approving the creation of a central intelligence agency designed to
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Lebanon has become a central arena in the intensifying struggle between two competing visions for the Middle East. On one side is a United States-led strategy aimed at integrating the region more
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United States President Donald Trump said he would be willing to speak with Hezbollah if requested by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, marking a notable statement as Washington seeks to advance a peace
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In a significant move on July 7, 2026, the United States (US) Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted three of Punjab’s most notorious transnational criminal gangs, separately led by Lawrence Bishnoi, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria,
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Deep within the vast expanse of China’s remote Taklamakan Desert, thousands of kilometres from the nearest coastline, a striking military landscape has been taking shape. According to an investigation by Telegraph UK
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France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long
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An investigation details how an ambitious Israeli strategy involving Kurdish militias, covert influence operations and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evolved into one of the most far-reaching regime-change plans ever contemplated before
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The recent detention and release of former Chilean intelligence operative Armando Fernandez Larios has brought renewed attention to a decades-old case that continues to resonate across U.S. and Chilean legal history. According
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After displaying the powerful JL 3 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile [SLBM] at the Victory Parade in Beijing in September last year, the PLA Navy conducted a test of an SLBM on July
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