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The Kurdish Question Revisited: Stateless Nations and Permanent Security Tensions

The Kurdish Question Revisited: Stateless Nations and Permanent Security Tensions

The Kurdish question continues to act as a structural force in the politics of the region at least a century after the Treaty of Lausanne demarcated the modern Middle East…
The Kurdish Question Revisited: Stateless Nations and Permanent Security Tensions

The Kurdish Question Revisited: Stateless Nations and Permanent Security Tensions

The Kurdish question continues to act as a structural force in the politics of the region at least a century after the Treaty of Lausanne demarcated the modern Middle East…
Analyzing the Political Motives Behind Israel’s New Terrorism Death Penalty Bill
Analyzing the Political Motives Behind Israel’s New Terrorism Death Penalty Bill
When Counter-Terrorism Enables Repression: Examining Saudi Arabia’s Use of UN Frameworks
When Counter-Terrorism Enables Repression: Examining Saudi Arabia’s Use of UN Frameworks
Digital Authoritarianism: Surveillance States and Cyber Repression in the Middle East
Digital Authoritarianism: Surveillance States and Cyber Repression in the Middle East
Militarised Religion: The Role of Clerics in Middle Eastern Insurgencies
Militarised Religion: The Role of Clerics in Middle Eastern Insurgencies
Iran’s Role in Leading SCO Anti-Terrorism Exercises: Regional Security Implications
Iran’s Role in Leading SCO Anti-Terrorism Exercises: Regional Security Implications
Analyzing the Political Motives Behind Israel’s New Terrorism Death Penalty Bill

Analyzing the Political Motives Behind Israel’s New Terrorism Death Penalty Bill

Israel moved forward with legislation that would enable the death penalty for those convicted of terrorism under nationalist motives. Advanced…
When Counter-Terrorism Enables Repression: Examining Saudi Arabia’s Use of UN Frameworks

When Counter-Terrorism Enables Repression: Examining Saudi Arabia’s Use of UN Frameworks

The dynamic of 2025 in Saudi Arabia between the United Nations counter-terrorism system and Saudi Arabia symbolizes that a rising…
Digital Authoritarianism: Surveillance States and Cyber Repression in the Middle East

Digital Authoritarianism: Surveillance States and Cyber Repression in the Middle East

In the Middle East, digital authoritarianism has become more pronounced in 2025 as the increasing dependence on surveillance infrastructure, cyber-policing…
Militarised Religion: The Role of Clerics in Middle Eastern Insurgencies

Militarised Religion: The Role of Clerics in Middle Eastern Insurgencies

With the changing nature of the insurgencies in the Middle East, clerics continue to play the key role of justifying…
Iran’s Role in Leading SCO Anti-Terrorism Exercises: Regional Security Implications

Iran’s Role in Leading SCO Anti-Terrorism Exercises: Regional Security Implications

The fact that Iran hosted and headed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) bi-annual anti-terrorism drill, called Sahand-Counterterrorism-2025 and which is…

Expert Opinions

Post-Petroleum Middle East: Security Implications of Energy Transition

Drone Swarms and Non-State Warfare: Middle East as Laboratory for Future Conflict

How Kuwait’s AML/CFT Framework Shapes Gulf Security Cooperation Against Terrorism?

Iran’s Stance: Arrest of Gaza Flotilla Activists Is an Act of Terrorism

Manchester Synagogue Attack Exposes Gaps in Counter-Terrorism and Prevention

Counter-Terrorism Laws and Human Rights: Striking the Balance in the Middle East

Drones, AI, and Cyber-Jihad: The Future of Terrorism in the Middle East

Drones, AI, and Cyber-Jihad: The Future of Terrorism in the Middle East

With the introduction of unmanned aerial systems, Middle Eastern terrorism has been completely transformed with regard to its operational environment.…
From Al-Qaeda to ISIS: How Terrorist Ideologies Evolve in the Middle East?

From Al-Qaeda to ISIS: How Terrorist Ideologies Evolve in the Middle East?

Ideological development of Middle Eastern terrorism dates back to the very worldview of Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda was founded in the late…
Quadripartite Calls on Kabul: Are Regional Powers Effectively Addressing Terrorism?

Quadripartite Calls on Kabul: Are Regional Powers Effectively Addressing Terrorism?

A new sense of urgency in terms of the threat matrix posed by Afghanistan was signalled by the 2025 meeting…
Unpacking the Roots: Why Terrorism Soars in the Middle East?

Unpacking the Roots: Why Terrorism Soars in the Middle East?

One of the most urgent and complicated global security challenges of the 21st century is the prevalence of terrorism in…
Building resilience: Bahrain’s new strategy for financial integrity and counter-terror goals

Building resilience: Bahrain’s new strategy for financial integrity and counter-terror goals

Bahrain has also implemented an overall policy to improve the integrity of the financial system, address illegitimate financing, and establish…
Elite But Controversial: 50 Years of YAMAM and Israel’s Counter-Terror Legacy

Elite But Controversial: 50 Years of YAMAM and Israel’s Counter-Terror Legacy

Israel’s YAMAM counter-terrorism unit was established in 1974 to address gaps in police and military capabilities for hostage rescues and…
Iran’s covert reach: Unfolding risks of sleeper cells for US homeland security

Iran’s covert reach: Unfolding risks of sleeper cells for US homeland security

US homeland security strategy is undergoing renewed scrutiny amid escalating tensions with Iran, particularly in 2025. Intelligence assessments warn of…
The war on Arab sovereignty: How counter-terrorism became regional domination?

The war on Arab sovereignty: How counter-terrorism became regional domination?

Twenty years following the initiation of the US-led war on terror, what started out as a global campaign against extremist…
Israeli Counter-Terrorism Summit Amid Gaza Crisis: Ethical Blindness or Complicity?

Israeli Counter-Terrorism Summit Amid Gaza Crisis: Ethical Blindness or Complicity?

The 2025 World Summit on Counter-Terrorism which will be held September 15-18, Reichman University, Herzliya has created a furor in…
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