Tamerlan Tsarnaev established links with al Qaeda's Caucasian networks for terrorist attacks in America, starting with the Boston bombings. In 2011, Russian intelligence notified the FBI that he was on their watch list.

Syrian peace talks are set to open in Moscow on March 5 between the Syrian opposition and Assad regime representatives, DEBKAfile reveals.

French aerial assaults can't defeat highly-trained, well-armed al Qaeda and rebel forces in Mali, without large-scale ground forces.

The Russians have given Bashar Assad his most sophisticated weapon thus far -- the Iskander cruise missile which has a hypersonic speed of 1.3 miles per second.

Israel's Gaza operation was in fact a combined intelligence coup to snap the Iranian connection to Hamas and shut off its gateway to Cairo.

Because the powers concerned about Syrian bloodshed stick to a hands-off policy -- even after the collapsed Eid truce - Bashar Assad and al Qaeda win a free field to fight it out.

It is suggested in some Western intelligence circles that Israel may choose to disable Iran's nuclear program by eliminating its leaders, a process they are cautiously referring to as "decapitation."

Iran launches its biggest ever fortification project to protect its nuclear installations from US and/or Israeli attack which Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned his military chiefs is only weeks away: Iran's nuclear facilities ...

The fall of Damascus will also have wide regional repercussions, as DEBKAfile shows in this exclusive video, because neither Bashar Assad nor Iran will take it lying down.

This DEBKAfile video shows Saudi Arabia heading for a nuclear weapon capability ahead of Iran and what happens when international diplomacy is too slow for the Middle East roller coaster.

The Exclusive DEBKAfile Map on this video traces the lines of Syria's potential segmentation among three power blocs.