STUTTGART, Germany — Unity between air and ground forces and a clear objective have enabled the Russians to turn the tide of the Syrian civil war, reverse the fortunes of their longtime ally President Bashar Assad and leave the already muddled American strategy in Syria in tatters…
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Ali Soufan Quoted in The New York Times Magazine: The Informant and the Filmmakers
A new documentary reveals the tangled role of paid sources in F.B.I. terrorism investigations.
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on WTOP: Growing Pool of Terrorists Overwhelming Tracking Capabilities
WASHINGTON — Intelligence and security officials around the world are scrambling to head off the next big terror attack. “This is the most significant threat we’ve seen in at least a decade,” said Rob Wainwright, director of Europol…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Interviewed on BBC World Service – Apple, FBI & Encryption
Patrick M. Skinner, Director of Special Projects for The Soufan Group and Former CIA Agent, joins BBC Wold Service to discuss the debate sparked by Apple’s tussle with the FBI over unlocking the California shooter’s smartphone…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on AP: IS Faces Budget Crunch, Killing Perks and Slashing Salaries
BEIRUT (AP) — Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on Vice News: Russian Prime Minister Says ‘We Have Slid Back to a New Cold War’
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated to the point that they may have fallen into a new cold war and that sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea has served only to aggravate tensions…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on AFP: Gloom But Also Hope for Libya Five Years After Uprising
Five years after the uprising began against dictator Moamer Kadhafi, many Libyans have lost hope of seeing the rule of law return to a divided country threatened by jihadist expansion…
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted On The National Interest: Riding the Waterboard to Victory or to a Wipeout?
Last Saturday at the Republican presidential debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, moderator David Muir asked the candidates whether they would, if elected, use the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding…
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted On McClatchy DC: Trump’s Call to Bring Back Torture Alarms Professional Interrogators
WASHINGTON – Hard-nosed interrogators who say they’ve thwarted terror attacks in the United States by extracting key information from suspects have a message for Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, who’s vowing to bring back waterboarding and even harsher questioning techniques if elected president…
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on U.S. News & World Report: U.S. Pledges ISIS Progress in Weeks; Russia Thinks Otherwise
Russian military offensive in Syria, U.S.-led summit in Brussels race for progress in Syria, Iraq…
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