American Intelligence News

Israel is prepared to attack  Syria  to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas  in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad  is toppled, Israel's air force chief said on Wednesday. Major-General  Amir Eshel  also said Israelis should brace for a protracted and painful conflict should their forces engage in combat with Hezbolla...

Syrian government troops backed by warplanes and Lebanese Hezbollah militants have attacked the rebel-held town of Qusair, as part of a weeks-long offensive to recapture the strategic area connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean coast.   Activists in the town, along the Lebanese border, said Sunday that security forces intensified their assault during th...

The South Korean Defense Ministry said  North Korea  fired three short-range guided missiles into waters off its east coast Saturday, raising concerns about the potential for more military provocation in the region. Two KN-02 missiles were fired in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, spokesman Min-seok Kim said.  Unlike the mid-range Musuda...

RUSSIA has sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a build-up that US and European officials see as a new, aggressive stance meant partly to warn the West and Israel not to intervene in Syria's bloody civil war.   Russia's expanded presence in the eastern Mediterranean, which began attracting US officials' notice three...

WASHINGTON: Russia has sent advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President    Bashar al-Assad , American officials said on Thursday.    Russia has previously provided a version of the missiles, called Yakhonts, to Syria. However, those delivered recently are outfitte...

NEWS that employees at the Internal Revenue Service targeted groups with “Tea Party” or “patriot” in their name for special scrutiny has raised pious alarms among some lawmakers and editorial writers.    Yes, the I.R.S. may have been worse than clumsy in considering an avalanche of applications for nonprofit status under the tax code, and that deserves sc...

A top Turkish official said Saturday that authorities believe those responsible for a pair of deadly car bombings earlier in the day had been in contact with the Syrian government's secret police force.  Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay stopped short of saying that Turkey believes the Syrian government was directly responsible for the blasts, while also...

-  Israel  warned the United States in recent days that Russia plans to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to Syria  despite Western pressure on Moscow to hold off on such a move, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Wednesday. The newspaper said U.S. officials had confirmed they were analyzing the Israeli reports but would not comment on whether...

The Pentagon is directly accusing the Chinese government and military of cracking into U.S. government computer systems to steal valuable intelligence.The Pentagon's claims, outlined in a report published on Monday, mark the strongest comments made to date by the U.S. military about the Chinese government launching cyberattacks against U.S. government com...

U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria  has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons,...