(by Franco Iacch) To date, the official ISIS group has never mentioned the upcoming world championships in Russia in its public literature. I remember that the sympathizers have no connection with the main branch of the terrorist movement. However, one point should be clarified: threats and greater involvement of sympathizers are not at all [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) It is strange to see some of the asymmetrical tactics that I had imagined years ago applied in these hours on the Gaza Strip with low-end drones used by Israel to throw tear gas at demonstrators. The Palestinians in turn launch incendiary kites, improvised assets almost impossible to shoot down (a fire in the forest of [...]
read moreThe British government could transfer Sergei Skripal, the Russian double spy who appears to have survived an assassination attempt in England, to the US to protect him from further attacks. Last week the BBC reported that Skripal, which had been in critical condition for nearly a month, was "improving rapidly". Skripal, 66, who has [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Sweet, immediate, ironic: this is how we could describe Beituki, the new life-style magazine (16/19 pages) with jihadist nuances by al Qaeda dedicated to Muslim women. The 5th issue was published a few hours ago and is all too easily accessible to anyone. Plain text, no obsessive references to religion. We do not find guides to create [...]
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Is it science fiction, or simple reality? “That's why they are expelling spy diplomats”, with the excuse of the “Skripal” case, the former KGB agent who suffered an attack with a nerve agent on March 4th in England. Let's analyze Washington's concerns together. The US government has for the first time publicly admitted that it [...]
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According to experts, the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is giving rise to a host of successor groups, which are rapidly regrouping, recruiting members and launching increasingly sophisticated attacks on government forces. A military victory in the war against ISIS was officially declared by the Iraqi government in December [...]
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According to Newsweek, the increase in Russian intelligence activities on US soil has prompted American intelligence agencies to reevaluate the position of retired Russian specialists, asking them for advice on Putin's intelligence methods. Furthermore, Russian defectors living in the United States are re-evaluating their personal safety in light [...]
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Britain secured the largest expulsion of Russian diplomats in history by sharing "unprecedented intelligence" with dozens of foreign countries about the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal. Nearly 30 countries and international organizations, including the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, have expelled or refused to [...]
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Relations between Russia and much of the West reached their lowest peak on Monday, with the expulsion of more than 100 Russian diplomats from two dozen countries around the world. The unprecedented expulsions were publicized on Monday with a series of coordinated announcements issued by almost every European capital, as well as from Washington, [...]
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On March 21, the Dutch people voted in favor of the new law on security and intelligence services, in Dutch Wet op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (or WIV). Public discontent over the new intelligence act came rather late. In August, a group of students from Amsterdam managed to gather over [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) A few hours ago the Russian media released two important data on the Avangard hypersonic sliding system. Little attention has been received in Europe. The first fact is that the hypersonic system unveiled by Putin last March 30st will be implemented on board the 100 UR-XNUMXUTTKn missiles returned by Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR for [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) President Donald Trump is working to make it easier to export certain types of lethal weapons such as small drones. Trump has decided to speed up the regulations that regulate the trade in unmanned weapons, because it is sensitized by the American producers who, according to them, would suffer the global competition of Chinese [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Tactically that number still represents a clear and immediate guide to carry out attacks and escape the countermeasures of the West. Nothing to do with the cartoons of the sympathizers advertised without control and raised to official threats. The 12th number should still be studied today for its completeness. In the section called "Open Source Jihad" [...]
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The British prime minister said yesterday in parliament that it is "highly likely" that the nerve agent used to attack the former Kremlin 007 in England last week was developed by Russia. But sources in London told the BBC that the British government will not invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]
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(by Franco Iacch) This morning the Russian Defense Ministry released a video and confirmed the test. As I wrote earlier, Russia's new anti-ship hypersonic missile could be a launched variant of the 9K720 Iskander ballistic system. And beyond the anti-ship capabilities, the missile would be able to hit any [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Under the cue of my overseas analyst colleagues, I downloaded and reread documents and texts on Project Pluto, the first nuclear ramjet in the world conceived during the Cold War. During the annual speech to the United Chambers of the Federal Assembly, Putin said verbatim: "We have successfully tested the nuclear-powered cruise missile." We have to understand [...]
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