abstract:The Air Force Intelligence (, Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya) is an intelligence service of Syria. Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Jawiyya is possibly Syria's most powerful intelligence service, owing its importance to Hafez al-Assad's role as the Air Force commander.
Since some of Pakistan's jihadist groups declared war on their country in 2007, they have attacked air-force bases, buses carrying servicemen and at least five offices of the Inter-Services Intelligencedirectorate, the military spy agency that spawned and nurtured many of the extremist outfits.