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The French technical intelligence vessel Dupuy-de-Lôme, operating on behalf of the DRM Directorate of Military Intelligence and the DGSE foreign intelligence agency had a strategically significant encounter in the middle of summer. The event was the talk of the town [...]

Teams of French, British and American combat swimmers spent part of July and early August in the troubled waters of [...]

The advisory mission to Ukraine's internal security forces, known as EUAM Ukraine (European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine), is currently in [...]

Our sources indicate that Taipei's security services had, several weeks in advance, identified the role that the Taiwan issue would [...]

The search for a successor to Emmanuel Macron’s post of strategic adviser has begun, with one candidate in particular well placed to take the role.

The surprise visit to Kyiv by Pro-Trump commentator Laura Loomer last month has drawn attention to the wider network of pro-Ukrainian voices trying to persuade US President Donald Trump to throw his support behind the war effort against Russia. The [...]

The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal on 3 July ordered France's National Council for Private Security Activities (CNAPS) to reinstate [...]

The businessman at the heart of plans to launch a huge semiconductor manufacturing and data centre with the government of [...]

France's DGSE foreign intelligence service has issued a call for tenders for training in “defensive and evasive driving”.

Originally slated for November, Buenos Aires has brought forward to September its plans for a trip to Beijing for the Argentine foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, and the secretary-general of the presidency, Karina Milei (the Argentine president's sister) to discuss a [...]

From new offices in Indonesia and Tonga to military and police exercises in South-East Asia and Africa, especially in Ethiopia, [...]

Authorities from the United States and the European Union are continuing to keep a close eye on several high-profile corruption [...]

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on 18 August announced the expulsion “in the very near future” of two Iranian diplomats. To avoid any escalation, the individuals are not linked to intelligence.

The upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been in turmoil in Beijing for the last few days. To mark the centenary of the birth of former president Jiang Zemin, (1926-2022), a solemn commemorative ceremony was held on [...]

Kirill Dmitriev is expected to lose his status as Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation [...]

In recent months, France's DRSD military intelligence agency has issued several espionage risk warnings linked to vehicles made by China's [...]

An article about the Grandview Institution (GVI) think-tank published in the Financial Times late last year sparked debate in the [...]

It's an open secret. When Intelligence Online asked a French diplomatic source about the reputation of the Beijing-based think-tank Grandview Institution (GVI) that individual made no attempt to evade the issue and confirmed that GVI is reputed to have close [...]

Yann Vézilier, an officer from France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency who was arrested in Mali on 14 August 2025 on [...]

The creation of the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order, destined to be the world's smallest state and often described [...]