Syria

Syria

1. President Obama has set the US the clear, but in ITIC assessment pretentious, goal of destroying ISIS with a comprehensive campaign of several...

Israeli policy makers seem to have decided to ignore one deadly fact: Syria did not surrender its entire chemical arsenal. Syria continues to use...

Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center 1. In recent months, ISIS has managed to brand itself in the Arab-Muslim world and in...

Udi Dekel, Orit Perlov As presented in the Syrian social media, public opinion holds that damage to the US interest in Syria will lead to a...

Omer Einav In recent months there have been clear signs of Hezbollah's legitimacy rebounding in Lebanon’s political and civilian spheres. The current governmental vacuum suits...

By Yoram Schweitzer At this point it is too early to determine whether Baghdadi’s positive situation assessment of the Islamic State organization is justified. While...

Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center ISIS' dramatic successes in the summer of 2014 were a strong blow to American foreign...

Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center 1)  Military capabilities: ISIS has an estimated 25,000 operatives in Syria and Iraq, and their number is...

Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center This study examines the nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an...

Qatar’s massive financial support of the most extreme Jihadist movements in the Middle East and North Africa is not exactly a secret – notwithstanding...

Reuven Paz The struggle against the Islamic State (IS) organization led by the United States and its allies appears thus far to be something of...

Turkey is now allowing the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft to fly over Syria. But so far, traditional warplanes are out of the question. 'Send...

Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir Abdollahian said that after the self-styled Islamic State (IS) took over Mosul in...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (21 October 2014): German intelligence: Turkey is working on its own nuclear program Gamers hacked US Army Apache simulator US...

The initial strikes against the Islamic State in Syria included missiles fired from overhead drones by operators who were hundreds or even thousands of miles away....

With the primary focus on air strikes and the potential for ground troops to fight Syria-based ISIS, the Obama administration more quietly is tapping...

Thus far, Turkey has been the only country bordering ISIS-controlled zones not to be attacked at all. ihls desk attempts to explain. ISIS keep reiterating...

The letter is serious in itself, but the moment of truth will come when those who signed it will be called for reserve duty....

Beyond Airstrikes, how can the US accelerate the Islamic State’s defeat? There is broad agreement among policy makers and defense analysts in Washington, that U.S. airstrikes alone are insufficient...

ISIS is gaining ground in the area spanning from the Syrian-Lebanese border, through northern Iraq and the outskirts of Bagdad. ISIS has also been...

Good morning America. What every junior intelligence officer has known did not get into the oval office. While we in i-HLS again and again...

While the U.S is still building a strategy against the extreme Islamic state (IS) terror group, aka ISIS / ISIL, it is accelerating efforts...