Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the son of a Jordanian doctor and an Austrian nurse, was appointed as Austria’s head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (Facebook) Middle East Eye By Mustafa Abu Sneineh Appointment follows criticism of old security organisation after failure to prevent attack by Islamic State sympathiser in November An Austrian-Jordanian has been

File – In this Friday, Sept. 10, 2021 file photo, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian speaks in Weimar, Germany. France said late Friday, Sept. 17 it was immediately recalling its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia after Australia scrapped a big French conventional submarine purchase in favor of nuclear subs built with U.S. technology.

Former Somali spy chief Fahad Yasin. Djiboutian authority at Djibouti airport. Such acts will not help to strengthen our ties between our governments. The Somali presidency has recently confirmed that former Somali intelligence director Fahad Yassin, now national security adviser to President Farmajo, has been detained at Djibouti’s airport. A statement from the presidency said:

In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) returns to U.S. Naval Base in Guam, Aug. 19, 2021. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday, Sept. 17, rejected Chinese criticism of Australia’s new nuclear submarine alliance with the United States and said he doesn’t mind

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on a National Security Initiative virtually with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, inside the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner Reuters By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose, David Brunnstrom, Colin Packham The United States and

By Anadolu Agency Bloc will support 7 countries to implement EU-related reforms The European Parliament on Wednesday approved pre-accession funds for the 2021-2027 period. The €14.2 billion ($16.8 billion) will support candidate and potential candidate countries to better prepare for EU accession and to implement EU-related reforms, the European Parliament said in a press statement.

File – In this June 7, 2019 file photo, former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor walks to the podium to be sentenced at Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, reversed the third-degree murder conviction of Noor who fatally shot an Australian woman in 2017, saying the

File – In this Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019 file photo, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland’s ruling party, speaks at a news conference where the speaker of the parliament resigns in Warsaw, Poland. Poland’s most powerful politician says the country’s future is in the European Union but that Poland also wishes to remain a sovereign

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, November 11, 2020. REUTERS/Costas Baltas/File Photo Reuters By Humeyra Pamuk The Biden administration will withhold $130 million worth of military aid to Egypt until Cairo takes specific steps related to human rights,

Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Reuters By Christopher Bing and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Three former U.S. intelligence operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, agreed to pay fines of $1.685 million and