ISIS

US Predator vs. China’s CH-4 drone This is a real race for superiority. The People’s Liberation Army’s CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is receiving high-profile...

US Special Forces captured Sleiman Daud al-Afari, the head of ISIS’ chemical weapons unit. Al-Afari worked for Saddam Hussein’s Military Industrialization Authority, specialising in...

ISIS poses a “credible threat” to the Rio Olympics, admitted Brazil’s Counterterrorism Director Luiz Alberto Sallaberry, but numerous measures are being taken to prevent...

The air strikes against ISIS have been going on for the last nine months . The air war, which Secretary of State John Kerry  described...

By Arie Egozi As long as these were isolated and relatively rare terrorism attacks, the global war on terrorism could still use the same old...

Attacks by the US and the coalition in Syria and Iraq U.S. and coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq continued during the week. This week...

“This is an act of terror carried out by an individual, with no prior planning” – a sentence we have been hearing a lot...

FBI director James Comey, Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen testify before the House. Photograph: Chip Support for Islamic State (Isis) increased...

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...

The U.S. Justice Department said this week that it has created a new office which would focus on homegrown extremists. Assistant Attorney General John P....

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (18 November 2014): Low-cost Ebola sensor Self-healing computers: next step in fighting hackers The Chinese civilian UAV market Morocco to assist UAE...

Britain’s intelligence service has uncovered a “sophisticated espionage operation” run by Islamic State extremists in Syria to hack into the email accounts of British...

The  annual Terrorism and Political Violence Map published recently has highlighted 2015 as the most lethal year for terrorist violence in Europe in nearly...

Paz Shabtai After the United States had said earlier this month that it would withdraw two Patriot missile-defense batteries from the border between Turkey and...

Weapon experts say that ISIS engineers have developed advanced new weapon systems capable of shooting down passenger jets, according to a report by Homeland...

A new use for a bomb-detecting technology: identifying the dangerous opioid fentanyl from a distance using a laser beam to protect soldiers and law...

From an endless supply of entertaining cat videos, to an invaluable method of keeping in touch with all our loved ones, social media has...

Online terrorist content has been fueling violent attacks in recent years. For example, ISIS’s recovering media network has been used to call on its supporters...

Fighting in Iraq and Syria continued in the major battle zones, without significant changes on the ground. A senior Iranian officer in the Revolutionary...

ISIS is considered by many to be a tech savvy group, due in large to its use of social media and the internet platform...

The Pentagon is set to step up its cyber warfare efforts against ISIS, and is arguing that disabling the group’s computers, mobile phones, and...

U.S Lawmakers this week will focus on the threat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) members using western passports to enter the...