The Gordian knot spun between Iran, Russia and Turkey, which currently dictates their operations in the Syrian theater, embodies a series of particular interests that stem from different aspirations and worldviews. Obviously, the disintegration of Bashar al-Assad's rule served as fertile ground for each of those three powers to promote different interests in that theater.

How is North Korea’s political system currently changing, pending the Great Transformation with the USA and South Korea, wanted and carefully directed by Kim Jong-un?

In the future, the Great Leader wants to have a new ruling class suitable for the economic and strategic changes which will affect North Korea in the coming years. Far-reaching military and economic changes, with the support of Iran, the Russian Federation, China, and other countries.

The Syrian ceasefire agreement applies to the Daraa area and does not include the Syrian Golan Heights, states a report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. “The two dominant jihadi organizations in the Syrian Golan Heights are now preparing for an attack by the Syrian army.

SpaceIL and IAI plan to launch a lunar mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida this December, and land on the moon on February 13, 2019. A final launch date is said to be announced closer to the event.

Israeli company RADA Electronic Industries, together with its partners, Ascent Vision and Sierra Nevada Corporation, won a $200,000 prize at the SOFWERX ThunderDrone Rapid Prototyping Event (RPE) III demonstration, with its X-MADIS mobile drone defeat system.

Lockheed Martin is expanding its work with Guardtime Federal to integrate a variety of integrity and cyber-related capabilities into Lockheed Martin aircraft products and processes. 

The new contract builds on specialized mission support testing in 2015, and the integration systems and support contract related to supply chain risk and software development management in 2017. This time the focus is on further reducing the attack surface of the information supply chain that forwards information to and from operational aircraft systems.

Elbit Systems has rolled out the Hermes 900 StarLiner, a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that features adverse weather capabilities and is fully compliant with NATO’s Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4671, qualifying it to be safely integrated into civilian airspace and fly in the same environment with manned aircraft. Following a year-long flying schedule, the Hermes 900 StarLiner has been performing Civil Aviation Authority certified flights in Masada National Park, Israel.

An unmanned aerial vehicle entered Israeli territory on Wednesday and was intercepted by a Patriot missile over the Sea of Galilee.

According to an IDF release, the Patriot missile defense system identified the threat and tracked it until its interception.

During the incident, alarms sounded in the Golan and the Jordan Valley regional councils.

New research claims that a hacker tried to sell files on the MQ-9 Reaper drone on the dark web. According to research by threat intelligence company Recorded Future, the hacker harvested the documents from a US Air Force captain’s computer by exploiting a widely known security vulnerability in Netgear routers.