To counter Russia's presence in North Africa, the US relies on gaining allies on the continent based on sharing intelligence reports with the leaders of those allied countries.

Over the years, the CIA used waterboarding and other forms of torture in its secret prisons abroad after the September 11, 2001 attacks, while a new testimony revealed new horrible ways of torturing the prisoners.

Two new books reveal intelligence secrets about some of the famous assassinations of Arab figures with full cooperation between agents of the American and Israeli intelligence services, in addition to the collaboration of the intelligence of Arab regimes.

Amid Washington's priority of curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions and gathering sensitive intelligence, 6 Iranians spent 5 to 10 years in prison after Iranian intelligence exposed their links to the CIA.

A new book has revealed alarming information about the CIA's infamous torture program during the early years of the so-called "war on terror" in the United States.