Israel is on the brink of an all-out war with the terrorist group Hezbollah, a former Israeli Intelligence officer has warned. Avi Melamed, a former member of the Israeli Defence Forces, said that any conflict with the Lebanese-based groups would have geo-political consequences.Mr Melamed, who is now a Fellow of Intelligence and Middle East Affairs for the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, said he believed Hezbollah is running out of Israeli targets to strike without triggering a significant counterattack from Jerusalem.In an interview with National Security News, the former officer said: “The ramifications would be huge, it will inevitably result in the…

US and British intelligence chiefs are recruiting disaffected members of Russia’s high command humiliated by the Kremlin’s failure to win the war in Ukraine. Senior intelligence officials within the CIA and MI6 believe that a growing number of senior officers within the Russian military now view the war as a major miscalculation by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to intelligence sources. Morale amongst the Russian military elite is also believed to be low after several senior officers have died in mysterious circumstances – such as falling out of windows – while others have been arrested and charged with corruption…

There is desperation in Zuma’s speech. Beneficiaries of the July 2021 looting in South. Africa or those facing prison sentences place their hope in Zuma.

China is recruiting talented citizens through local “hacking competitions” and weaponising their talents to attack Western governments, according to a report by ETH Zurich University’s Centre for Security Studies. The revelation, coupled with recent admissions by Dutch officials about the wide scope of Chinese hacking efforts, has amplified fears about China’s growing “hack-for-hire” programme. The report titled “From Vegas to Chengdu”, uncovers a two part hacker system: Eugenio Benincasa, report author and senior researcher, documents how Chinese security researchers began dominating international hacking competitions after 2014. At the Pwn2Own competition, Chinese teams’ winnings increased from 13% in 2014 to 79%…

China is on course to develop an arsenal of up to 1,000 nuclear weapons within six years, the head of Nato has warned. Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general, said the communist state was investing heavily in modern weaponry, including nuclear missiles, which would grow to 1,000 warheads by 2030. He added that the dual threats of nuclear armed adversaries – China and Russia – was a new threat to the west and Nato which could no longer be ignored. Mr Stoltenberg said: “And that means that in a not very distant future Nato may face something that it has never…

There is a new sense of optimism among South African citizens living with power blackouts, deteriorating services and an ailing economy that the backward slide that began under Jacob Zuma’s reign, could be reversed.

Kwazulu-Natal is the biggest threat to stability in South Africa.

The Kremlin has vowed to exact an “extremely painful” retaliation after the G7 group of countries agreed to provide Ukraine with a $50bn (USD) loan to help the country in its war with Russia. The move followed the announcement by President Joe Biden that the US has signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement with Ukraine. Most of the money would be provided in the form of a loan from the US government that would be backed by windfall profits being earned on roughly $300 billion in immobilised Russian assets. The vast majority of the money is being held in EU…

Leaked documents indicate alternative peace plans from other countries will be promoted that will be diluting Ukraine’s peace formula.

The development of the uMkhonto we Sizwe Party (MKP), at least in terms of their political rhetoric and the touch points they use for their political message, matches almost dot for dot the development of the MAGA movement in the United States.

The Paris Olympics is facing a dual threat of attacks by the ISIS terrorist group and a Russian disinformation campaign, intelligence chiefs have claimed. The disclosure follows an announcement by the terror group which has called on “lone wolves” to carry out drone strikes on Paris during the 2024 Olympics. The terror group made an apparent bomb threat on the French capital, releasing a mock-up image of a drone being flown at the Eiffel Tower on a website linked to the militant Islamist group. “Lone wolves’ Olympics have begun with the Will of Allah,” the post read. Last week Russia…

A British former military intelligence officer has said that the high civilian death toll in the Israeli hostage rescue operation would have been difficult to avoid. Colonel Philip Ingram, a former member of the Intelligence Corps and a NATO planner, said the involvement of civilians in the detention of the hostages meant that they had become legitimate targets. He spoke out amid the growing international criticism surrounding the rescue operation. Hamas claimed that over 200 Palestinians were killed and wounded in the military operation but did not distinguish between civilians and terrorists in this figure, while the Israeli Government said…