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  • Cyber Security
    Security experts: Iran-backed group of hackers targeted U.S., Saudi Arabia

    Cybersecurity firm FireEye has identified a new group of hackers, known as APT33, that it says has been working on behalf of the Iranian government since 2013. The group has "potential destructive capabilities," FireEye warned. "The campaigns that were laid out were not just aligned with the Iranian government but with the Iranian military," said Stuart Davis, a director at FireEye subsidiary Mandiant.

  • Middle East Maritime Security
    Middle East Maritime Security: The Growing Role of Regional and Extraregional Navies

    Historically, protection of (SLOCs) sea lines of communication--a process integral to projecting power regionally--was the purview of only Great Power nations such as the United States and Britain. Today, by contrast,leading regional states, including Iran, Israel, and several members of the GCC, are increasingly active in acquiring access and basing rights and building logistics networks throughout the region. Coupled with the return of Russia to the Middle East stage, and the Chinese and Indian navies playing an ever greater role, these changes are reconfiguring the MENA maritime arena.

  • GCC Security
    Regional Security Implications of the GCC Crisis

    One unintended consequence of the recent kerfuffle between Qatar and its neighboring GCC states of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain is the imposition of a hold on all Foreign Military Sales to the GCC countries by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker. This action, which is informal but will probably be respected, impacts each GCC country differently.

  • Trump-Russia
    Dems to Mueller: Flynn broke law on security forms to broker Russia-Saudi deal

    House Democrats sent special counsel Robert Mueller what they say is evidence that former national security adviser Michael Flynn failed to disclose a trip he took to the Middle East to explore a business deal with the Saudi government and a Russian government agency.

  • Cyber Security
    Nations That Hack the U.S. Could Face ‘Real World’ Consequences, Homeland Security Adviser Warned

    White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert suggested the U.S. government may dole out “real world” punishment to nation-states that hack federal systems or violate agreed upon cybersecurity norms.

  • HRW Report
    Torture and National Security in al-Sisi’s Egypt

    This report, based on interviews with 19 former detainees and the family of a 20th detainee who were tortured between 2014 and 2016, shows how police and officers of the National Security Agency regularly use torture during their investigations to force perceived dissidents to confess or divulge information, or to punish them.

  • U.S.-Turkey
    Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking US Protesters

    A grand jury in Washington has indicted 19 people, including 15 Turkish security officials, in connection with a brawl that broke out during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to the U.S. capital in May.

  • JASTA
    Perspective: This congressional act threatens US national security

    While JASTA will have a wide range of devastating consequences in the long run, it will create immediate damage by unjustly alienating one of America's most consequential allies: Saudi Arabia. The Arab world is encountering an almost unprecedented number of challenges

  • Nuclear Power
    Nuclear Power’s Woes Imperil U.S. National Security, Moniz Says

    The decline of the U.S. nuclear-power industry puts America’s security at risk, according to a report being released Tuesday by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz that calls for greater federal investment.

  • Awamiya
    Saudi security forces flatten old quarter of Shi’ite town

    A security campaign against Shi'ite Muslim gunmen in eastern Saudi Arabia has reduced dozens of buildings in the town of Awamiya to ruins and forced thousands of residents to flee.