Communications

Danny Citrinowicz, a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former senior member of Israeli military intelligence, emphasized the potential threat posed by Iraq. "The Shiite militias have advanced drone capabilities and close cooperation with Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen," he said. "Their growing military strength, nurtured by Iran, makes them...

Speaking prior to Monday’s incident, Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz, a senior research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, told JNS that it would be a mistake to dismiss threats and statements by Shi’ite militias regarding attacks on strategic sites in Israel. While the gap between some of the previous statements by the militias in Iraq and what...

At the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) researchers have also noted the Iranian increase in threats: “Iran increases the pressure on the US to stop the war in Gaza,” INSS researcher Sima Shine wrote. “Since the beginning of the war, the Iranian political elite has engaged in an extensive global diplomatic campaign, unusual in its intensity and scope, to curb the...

Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz, a senior research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, assessed that the significant threat to Israel stemming from Iraq involves armed unmanned aerial vehicles. “In the past, there was a claim of an attempted UAV launch from Iraq at Israel during ‘Operation Protective Edge’ [in 2014, against Hamas in Gaza],” said...

Col. (res.) Eldad Shavit, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, was formerly responsible for intelligence assessments in the Israeli military and the Prime Minister’s Office and is an expert on Middle East regional security and US policy in the area. “I don’t think that we’re going to see another Qasem Soleimani...

If the White House’s aim is to force Iraq to choose between Washington and Teheran, then it will likely be disappointed by the results of such a maneuver.

The future of the U.S. policy in Iraq is uncertain, as the American military presence there stands at the intersection of several key goals with considerable discord between them: counter-terrorism, ending “endless wars” in the Middle East, and the struggle to contain Iran.

Nearly four decades after taking out Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, Israel once again faces threats emanating from Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.

On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul to declare the city liberated from the Islamic State group. The move came almost three years to the day after the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a caliphate from the Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri. The liberation marks the collapse of al Baghdadi's expansionist vision. But the threat posed by the...

Latest developments in the turbulent Middle East region have concentrated the international attention to this area. In that context, special interest is directed to the Kurdish issue, which has become one of the major factors that affects the situation in this complicated theatre. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state, and according...