Communications

Eisenkot said in an address at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) that "the campaign against the Islamic State was intensive and took place in more than one country, with results in some areas that exceed all expectations in the type of operations and attacks that were carried out." "Some of the operations went under the radar. The IDF managed this...

Former military chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot on Sunday revealed that the Israel Defense Forces was asked by a third party to carry out operational attacks against the Islamic State jihadist group in 2015. Speaking at an event hosted by the Institute for National Security Studies, Eisenkot — a current MK with the National Unity party — said that “Islamic State knows best how...

Since the Islamic State (ISIS) was driven from its territorial holdings in Syria and Iraq, the organization has lost its position at the center of global attention. And yet Yoram Schweitzer, a senior researcher Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies and head of the institute’s Program on Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict, stresses that the...

It has been almost two years since former President Donald Trump claimed that “100%” of Syrian territory held by IS had been recaptured, yet in some areas of the Arab country, IS continues to be a concrete reality. “It is far from being finished business,” Yoram Schweitzer, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and head of the Program...

“ISIS is ‘whistling in the dark.’ They have lost their equipment and the services of their formerly numerous volunteers,” Dr. Oded Eran, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told The Media Line.

A new report by the Institute for National Security Studies shows 2019 having the lowest number of suicide bombings since 2011. Why? ISIS —who used suicide bombers as one of its main weapons—lost territory, income and foreigners to carry out attacks

Yoram Schweitzer, a researcher specializing in terror at the Institute for National Security Studies, told Haaretz on Sunday morning that the importance of killing Baghdadi, assuming it is confirmed, is mainly symbolic. According to Schweitzer, the main achievement of the international coalition fighting ISIS was already attained nearly two years ago, with the final fall of...

The Islamic State is a coalition and comprises of organizations which are still operating successfully. Trump's declaration encourages ISIS to attack.

The former head of the IDF’s military intelligence said Thursday that the firing of a pair of missiles from Syria into the Sea of Galilee a day earlier was likely an effort by the Islamic State group to draw Israel into a confrontation with the Syrian regime.

Expert analyst Lt. Col. (res.) Yoram Schweitzer says the penny still has not dropped for Egypt when it comes to Sinai-based Islamic State terrorism • Meanwhile, Israeli officials worry that the jihadi group would assist Hamas against Israel in a Gaza war.