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Feb 13, 2017, 4:58 PM

The rocket attack on Eilat: Why now?

Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)

The Islamic State's Sinai Province faction has the will, if not the means, to ratchet up attacks on Israel

Oct 19, 2015, 8:44 AM

Russian involvement in Syria: A Blessing in disguise?

The contradiction of approaches between Russia and the United States regarding the future solution to the crisis in Syria was clearly demonstrated in the speeches of both presidents Obama and Putin at the UN in New York. While Putin...

Jun 7, 2015, 4:14 PM

A kinder gentler al-Qaeda

A spokesman for the group's affiliate in Syria is working to present a moderate face, in contrast to ISIS

Feb 9, 2015, 11:34 PM

ISIS’s barbarism and its discontents

The Islamic States's strategy is to project power and perpetrate blackmail, an approach that may boomerang

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Yoram Schweitzer is an expert on international terrorism and head of the Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict at the Institute for National Security Studies.