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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Regional and Human Security Implications
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...
ISIS: Main events in Syria and Iraq – February 5-11 2015
1. Main developments in Syria
The city of Kobani
After the liberation of the city of Kobani, Kurdish forces began to repel ISIS from the surrounding...
iHLS TV Weekly Video Report – February 17th 2015
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Cyber attacks on drones
The Iranian nuclear crisis and the U.S. administration
A new...
The Great Bank Robbery: the Carbanak APT
The story of Carbanak began when a bank from Ukraine asked us to help with a forensic investigation. Money was being mysteriously stolen from...
Spotlight on Global Jihad: February 5-11 2015
Main events of the week
Following the murder of the Jordanian pilot, the Royal Jordanian Air Force carried out intensive airstrikes against ISIS targets in...
Israel vs. the Palestinians in the ICC
On January 16, 2015, Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced her decision to open a preliminary examination of the situation...
Deterrence against Non-State Actors: Thoughts following Operation Protective Edge
Recent years have witnessed the accelerated weakening of state actors in the Middle East. In turn, regular state armies are less able to grapple...
Developments in the Global Oil Market Strategic Significance
Since mid-2014, global oil prices have fallen dramatically. The price of an American WTI barrel of oil was $44 in late January 2015, compared...
Kurds retake Kobani – Serious blow for ISIS
On January 30, 2015, ISIS issued a video in which it admitted, for the first time, that its fighters had retreated from Kobani (Ayn...
iHLS TV Weekly Video Report – February 10th 2015
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U.S Visa waiver program is under attack by many experts
Terror attacks on...
Missile Defense: Too Much Demand and Not Enough Supply
In the framework of the anti-ISIS coalition, the US and its allies are deploying Patriot Air and Missile Defense units in the Middle East....
Yemen’s Domestic Challenges: Multidimensional Splits
One of the key elements threatening the success of the reforms and Yemen’s political stability is the struggle among the country’s elites, a struggle...
Egypt’s War in the Sinai Peninsula: A Struggle that Goes beyond Egypt
Egypt is in the midst of a war that can be categorized as a low-intensity conflict. This category represents a common pattern of military...
Belgium concerned by ISIS members returning home
Belgium is the main source for European fighters in ISIS.
The country's law enforcement officials fear that at least seventy of some 350 Belgian fighters...
China tests hypersonic strike vehicle – how will the US respond?
The US and China have been engaged in what some have dubbed a hypersonic arms race. This summer, the US tested its own hypersonic...
Pakistan’s new cruise missile
Pakistan tests another self-developed cruise missile.
Reportedly, last Monday (local time), Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile...
iHLS TV Weekly Video Report – February 3rd 2015
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Coalition against Isis: Too Little Too Late
Kaspersky Technology Forecast for 2045
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ISIS: Main developments in Iraq
Low-intensity fighting continued this week at the various battle sites, with no significant developments. ISIS’s efforts to establish its military and administrative control over...
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis and the U.S. Administration
The Dilemma of Sanctions in Light of the Effort to Promote an Agreement
In his State of the Union address on January 20, 2015, President...
France to sell Egypt advanced frigates and jet fighters
France will become a major arms supplier for Egypt.
Cairo is interested in procuring 20 Rafale fighter jets as well as two FREMM frigates from...
Cyber attacks on drones
The number of missions unmanned systems are tasked with, as well as their diversity, is expanding each year. The roles they play include a...
Russia is Developing a Hypersonic Missile
Russia will build its first hypersonic missile by 2020. This, according to local state media.
“In my estimation, the first hypersonic products should appear …...
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