In one of the most audacious individual espionage operations ever, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jewish accounting clerk, was recruited by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, trained intensively as a field agent for six months and given a new identity as an Arab businessman in South America. In 1962, he was deployed as a spy to Damascus…… Read More
On a stormy night in July 2005, South Sudanese rebel-leader-turned-Vice-President John Garang de Mabior was flying back to Sudan after a two-day visit to his longtime friend, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. An hour into the journey, his helicopter crashed in a remote mountain area, killing everyone on board. Air crash investigators concluded that bad…… Read More
Espionage, secret recordings, spy networks and Middle East political intrigue – inside the dark world of Israeli intelligence-gathering in Turkey. In October 2021, Turkish security services arrested 15 agents suspected of working for Israel’s spy agency Mossad operating in several cities. Then in December 2022, they arrested 44 more people for allegedly leaking information to…… Read More
From its foundation in 2004 to its collapse six years later and subsequent attempts to recover its vast losses, this is the inside story of the rise and fall of Kabul Bank. Involving nearly $1bn of money laundering, deception, embezzlement and failure of accountability, the banking disaster hit the savings of many Afghan families and…… Read More
In this major investigation, Al Jazeera reveals new evidence suggesting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned. This documentary centres on scientific analysis of Arafat’s personal effects, which he wore and kept close to him in his final days. Scientists from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland discover elevated levels of polonium on Arafat’s effects. Polonium…… Read More
Dawn police raids on nearly 70 private homes and organisations across Austria in November 2020 shocked waking Muslim communities. The authorities claimed they were part of an important “anti-terrorist” operation but many believed Operation Luxor was indicative of a growing Islamophobic culture in Austria and across Europe. This film goes to Austria to examine what…… Read More
Somalia’s modern history is a tale of independence, prosperity and democracy in the 1960s, military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s – followed by a desperate decline into civil war and chaos almost ever since. The effect of the war has been to scatter the Somali people in their millions to refugee camps and neighbouring…… Read More