Espionage

Donald Trump's personal attorney-at-law plans to accuse him of knowing about the leak of emails of the Democratic Party in the summer of 2016 via the WikiLeaks website that hit his rival in the presidential election, Reuters and CNN report.

Russia said Monday its security services had detained a US citizen in Moscow accused of spying, the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West.

Alex Younger, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, said that his first intelligence job was penetrating an organisation “intent on genocide” in the Balkans in the mid-1990s.

Espionage and intelligence have rather been taboo issues few writers have dared to tackle, says veteran journalist Murat Yetkin, adding that his new book will open Pandora's Box on spying in Turkey. Yetkin says Turkey was, and will remain, a stage for international spying activities.

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has opened an online museum dedicated to the history of espionage on its website. From Turkish intelligence reports on Lawrence of Arabia to curious gadgets for espionage, you can click through for the stories from MİT's digital museum.

President Vladimir Putin said on Sept. 12 that Russia knew the real identity of two men accused by British prosecutors of trying to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain.

British Security Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "ultimate" responsibility for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in England in March.

Bucharest, Aug 18 /Agerpres/ - The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) announced on Saturday that through its cyber-intelligence unit - the National Cyberint Center (CNC) - it has certain data and information, including of technical nature, that massive cyber-attacks took place on some financial institutions in Romania from June to August of this year.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange must eventually leave the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up for the past six years, the country's president says.

Speculation about Assange's future has grown in recent days after reports senior officials from Ecuador and Britain were now in discussion about how to remove him from the embassy after revocation of his asylum.

Groups targeting Turkey have expanded their activities and increased their followers in Germany, according to a new report released by a German spy agency on July 24.