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CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the US foreign intelligence service.

A major pillar of the US intelligence community, the CIA operates to safeguard US national security and interests. It does this by collecting information and carrying out covert operations in countries across the world. 

The agency's activities include counterintelligence, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and more.

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 Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Burns testifies at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to American security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 11, 2024.

CIA chief heads to Qatar, Israel to salvage Gaza hostage deal

 Hamas parade in Gaza

'Determined to secure an agreement': Hamas says in a statement regarding ceasefire proposal

By REUTERS
 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey May 18, 2018.

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its operation against Israel - Turkish source

By REUTERS
 People walk by pphotographs of  Israelis still held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv. March 10, 2024.

Gaza ceasefire could be reached in days, Arab media says

 US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) speaks at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to American security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, March 11, 2024.

US spy agencies say country faces 'increasingly fragile world order'

By REUTERS
 YAHYA SINWAR, leader of Hamas in Gaza, attends a rally in Gaza City marking the terror organization's 35th anniversary last December. Sinwar has once again aimed the arrow at Israel's Achilles' heel, argues the writer.

Mossad: Hamas wants to ignite region on Ramadan more than it wants a hostage deal

Then US Army Gen. David Petraeus at an event in the White House, April, 2011

Ex-CIA chief: To defeat Hamas, Israel must get Gaza running again

 William Burns, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, attends his Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 24, 2021.

Blinken says hostage deal still possible, Burns meets Netanyahu in Israel

 Staff and volunteers of Amnesty International USA, MoveOn, Oxfam America and Win Without War hold a vigil outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2023.

Israel close to reaching a new ceasefire deal with Hamas

 People visit the grave of senior Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani (pictured in poster) at his hometown of Kerman.

US secretly warned Iran before deadly ISIS suicide bombings

 The logo of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005.

CIA tries to recruit double agents in Russia with new video

By REUTERS
 The logo of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005.

CIA providing intel to Israel on Hamas leaders, Gaza hostages

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from a penal colony in the Vladimir Region during a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia April 26, 2023.

Russia's Navalny tracked down to 'Polar Wolf' prison in the Arctic

By REUTERS
 The flags of Israel and Qatar

Israel tells Qatar that they're ready for week-long truce for 40 hostages

By Barak Ravid/Walla
 Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza set a symbolic shabbat table with more than 200 empty seats for the hostages, at  "Hostage Square", outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, October 20, 2023.

CIA director meets with Qatari PM, Mossad chief to discuss hostage deal - report

 Mossad Director David Barnea speaks during a Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in Tel Aviv, on September 10, 2023.

Mossad, US spy chiefs meet Qatari PM to discuss 'building on' Gaza truce

By REUTERS
 David Barnea, the head of the Israeli Mossad attends an honour guard ceremony for Israel's incoming military chief Herzi Halevi at Israel's Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel January 16, 2023.

Mossad, CIA chiefs meet Qatar PM in Doha on Gaza hostage deal - source

By REUTERS
 IRANIAN CLERICS set fire to American flags on February 11, 2022, the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran.

Iran is no mere adversary, it is America's mortal enemy