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Documents Unearthed After Assad’s Fall Show Syrian Spy Agency Reacting to Israel’s Pager Attack on Hezbollah

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By Hala Nouhad Nasreddine, Jana Barakat, Sana Sbouai Verified, Shaya Laughlin
| Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Verified
On September 17, a Syrian military intelligence branch fired off an urgent dispatch with troubling news: According to a local source, pagers used by the Syrian government’s ally Hezbollah had exploded in Lebanon. As the day unfolded, the messages kept coming. As officers struggled to gather intelligence, they relied on rumors and outdated information to make sense of the situation.
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Russian Company Behind Egypt Wheat Cargo Had History of Selling ‘Stolen’ Ukraine Grain

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By Selma Mhaoud, Shaya Laughlin, Misha Gagarin
| Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Verified
A Russian company with a history of selling grain from occupied areas of Ukraine exported over 20,000 tons of wheat that unloaded in Egypt last month after re-routing from Syria, documents obtained by OCCRP show. The company, Pallada LLC, had received small quantities of wheat from the occupied parts of the Zaporizhzhia region during the two months before the cargo set off, the documents show.
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Syrian Intelligence Files Offer Clues in Case of Abducted American Reporter

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By Ali Al ibrahim, Kevin Hall Verified, Selma Mhaoud, Shaya Laughlin
| Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Verified
Documents recovered from one of Syria’s former intelligence branches show how Bashar al Assad’s regime tracked foreign journalists as they entered the country to cover the civil war, including a long-missing American war correspondent. The documents mention Austin Tice, who disappeared while working for the Washington Post and the McClatchy news chain. The files do not list him as deceased. It’s an important distinction, because little is known about Tice’s disappearance.
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