Counter Terror

Zvi Magen Russia has not (yet) joined the US-led coalition against ISIS, and its official spokespersons have not spared their criticism of the coalition’s management...

The main event of the week that ended 2014 was the crash of a Jordanian aircraft in Al-Raqqah and the capture of its pilot...

The Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabab has largely lagged other such groups when targeting attacks abroad and recruiting foreign fighters, but new leadership could change...

The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a navigation tool that supplies positioning data and guiding maps to a target point. Not only us drivers...

Russia's anti-terror units have received the most compact multi-shot grenade launcher in the world. This grenade launcher, called The Bur, is just 74.2 centimeters...

In a tense election year and a summer of protests, ensuring the safety of people in and around the political conventions is crucial. To help...

AUS&R 2016 focused the attention to the unmanned systems role both in the battlefield and in the homeland security sphere. The convention was a remarkable...

Facial recognition technologies are not new. However, what about identifying the actual identity of people under disguise? Researchers from the University of Cambridge are...

The international press is many steps ahead of the west in understanding the danger posed by ISIS. News of a "laptop of terror" belonging...

iHLS TV Special Edition - Interview Smadar perry-Part 1, War on ISIS

This report summarizes notable events discussed on jihadist Web forums during the second half of June 2014. Following are the main points covered in...

With tensions in the north of Israel flaring up again, soldiers were sent on patrol close to the border with Lebanon in civilian vehicles....

L-3 Communications introduced ClearScan – a new high-throughput explosives detection system (EDS) for screening cabin bags at leading airports worldwide. The system uses Computed...

Directed energy technology could vastly increase the options that war fighters have available to them, Air Force leaders said earlier this week , arguing...

IBM’s security division has published its security threats reports for the third quarter of 2015 which it pointing out to an increasing danger of...

A new French law would impose penalties and fines on smartphone manufacturers who refuse to hand over encrypted information to law enforcement in terrorism...

Russia plans to turn the Hmeymim base in Syria into a fully operational facility for its armed forces. The air base began operations in...

Over the backdrop of the shootout attack carried out in a public domain, the city of New Orleans has been considering the use of...

The proposed wall along the US-Mexico border has been causing budget cuts in other crucial areas. Three airport security programs put in place after...

Operating as a team, an autonomous vehicle with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying overhead as surveillance could go deep into complex and unfamiliar...

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), U.S. Coast Guard in New York, law enforcement and rescue officials of all kinds, performed an exercise in which...

Al Qaeda engineers have been working on designing a sophisticated bomb powerful enough to bring down passenger planes, designed to avoid detection. John Pistole, head...