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AFGHANISTAN – Taliban peace will help in fighting IS: Afghan official (Al-Monitor)

 Afghanistan national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib addresses the Manama Dialogue security conference in the Bahraini capital on December 5, 2020 Photo by Mazen Mahdi/AFP. A successful...

ISRAEL – Israel issues travel warning involving several Middle Eastern states (Al-Monitor)

 Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, attends the opening session...

HACKING – COVID-19 – Johnson & Johnson saw a 30% uptick in cyber-attacks (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111960/hacking/covid-19-johnson-johnson-cyber-attacks.html

CYBER CRIME/MALWARE – Human resource consulting giant Randstad hit by Egregor ransomware (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/111952/cyber-crime/randstad-egregor-ransomware.html

IRAN – Iranian Security Officials Admit Intelligence Failures and Call for Cleaning House (Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, JCPA)

Following the assassination of one of Iran’s senior military nuclear program operatives, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, security officials, in general, and the top officials among the...

EGYPT/ISIS/SINAI/ISRAEL – Islamic State Province in Sinai Changes its Strategy: Are Israel and the Suez Canal in the Crosshairs? (Tomer Naveh, Yoram Schweitzer, INSS)

In the past few months, Wilayat Sinai (the Sinai Province), which is the Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate in Egypt, carried out two unconventional attacks....

IRAN/ISRAEL/USA – Does the Cost of the Fakhrizadeh Assassination Outweigh the Benefits? (Shlomo Brom, Shimon Stein, INSS)

The prevailing assumption in the Israeli and international media, and among governments around the world, is that the assassination of the head of Iran’s...

IRAN/ISRAEL/USA – The Assassination of Fakhrizadeh: Considerations and Consequences (Amos Yadlin, Assaf Orion, INSS)

The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizada invites six questions: Who is responsible for the act? What was the objective? Why now? What are the consequences...

SAUDI ARABIA – Politics, America, and Culture: Behind Saudi Arabia’s Hesitation (Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center)

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, US State Department photo by Ron Przysucha - Public Domain via Wikipedia The official Saudi denial of a meeting...

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