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The prolonged hospitalization of the current king of Saudi Arabia, 91-year-old Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, “custodian” of oil and Islamic holy sites, has led...

Israel Israel: IBM Bought the Israeli cyber security company Trusteer IBM signed an agreement to acquire cyber security company Trusteer, and plans to set up a...

by Dr. Emily B. Landau While over the past weeks expectations of a deal with Iran have been running high in many quarters, the first...

A recent arms deal between Egypt and France may indicate a change in the regional balance of power; Egypt's traditional reliance on U.S. arms...

By Myriam Dunn Cavelty INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program  לעברית - לחץ כאן The purpose of this article is giving a balanced picture of the...

Recent years have witnessed the accelerated weakening of state actors in the Middle East. In turn, regular state armies are less able to grapple...

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a nationalistic-secular ideological organization established in 1976. It existed until its final fall in May 2009. The...

The Refugee Population: An Overview Defined as the “worst humanitarian disaster since the end of the cold war,” the Syrian civil war has to date...

President Vladimir Putin lifted, on Monday, a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S-300 air defense missile systems. This in the aftermath of the...

February 1st, 2014 Israel Cyber Park in Beer Sheva expanding One of the biggest network companies, Cisco, will invest millions of dollars in the Israeli cyber industry...

Israel’s cyber sector is still dominated by startups, despite “growing at a breakneck pace,” according to the folks over at the Defensive Cyber Operations...

A telegram from the US embassy in Azerbaijan that was published in Wikileaks claimed that the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, compared Israel-Azerbaijan relations...

Udi Dekel It has become clear once again that Hamas feels it has nothing to lose and that it is prepared to resume the armed...

Israel seems to be reassessing its position on the sale of locally made UASs to the Ukraine, this after the Kremlin announcement that it...

By Amir Averbuch and Gabi Siboni INSS – CYBER Warfare Program   The classic defense methods employed throughout the world in recent decades are proving unsuccessful in halting modern...

The shock that gripped France following the terrorist attacks in Paris in early January 2015 will probably wane as time passes. Similarly, the urgency...

By Stephen J. Cimbala INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program . Introduction During the Cold War, and especially in the 1980s, there were some serious efforts...

By Ron Tira INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program Israel’s strategic environment of mid 2012 differs significantly from that of a few years ago. In...

The ICC’s Decision to Open a Preliminary Examination: Cause for Concern, not for Panic. On January 16, 2015, Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal...

By Uzi Eilam INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program The end of the twentieth century witnessed a dramatic transformation of the battlefield, and classical warfare between...

    i-HLS ISRAEL Homeland Security    Israel Israel’s cyber capabilities among the best in the world     According to a McAfee cyber capability report, Israel shared first place with two...

  The Minsk II Agreement: Implications of a (Shaky) Ceasefire The Minsk II Agreement, reached on February 12, 2015 between Ukraine and the separatist provinces in...