Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, 62, was assassinated by the United States in a drone strike at Baghdad airport in the early hours of this morning. At least seven other personnel were also killed. Soleimani was widely regarded as the second most powerful figure in Iran. The White House said that …
A colleague has just returned from Australia where she came across an intriguing little mystery. She was told that this was a case of espionage. We have concluded that it was not, but it is interesting nonetheless. It shows the way that people believe that spies work – and how …
Throughout history, there has always been a fear of poison as a likely method of assassination. The post of royal food taster has never been a popular one. But hard evidence of the use of poison, particularly by the intelligence services and their predecessors, is actually quite hard to find. …
9 May: Thirteen people were sentenced to prison terms by a court in Montenegro. It had been alleged that in October 2016 they were part of a plot to assassinate the Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Dukanović. The hope was that the assassination of the Prime Minister would be followed by …
Daniel Everette Hale, 31, has been indicted in the USA on five charges of passing secret information about America’s drone programme. He was arrested on 9 May. It is believed that he passed these documents to a website called The Intercept. According to the indictment, the documents were leaked in …