The Islamic State is a shadow of its former self. But it’s likely to keep adapting and enduring, even after the U.S. raid that killed its top commander. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/world/middleeast/isis-qurayshi-death.html?referringSource=articleShare
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/us/civilian-deaths-war-isis.html?referringSource=articleShare A single top secret American strike cell launched tens of thousands of bombs and missiles against the Islamic State in Syria, but in the process of hammering a vicious enemy, the shadowy force sidestepped safeguards and repeatedly killed civilians, according to multiple current and former military and intelligence officials.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/07/trumps-syria-withdrawal-impacts/3896713002/ Critics condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria as an abandonment of U.S. commitments that could further destabilize a volatile region.
https://www.csis.org/programs/cybersecurity-and-governance/technology-policy-program/other-projects-cybersecurity This timeline records significant cyber incidents since 2006. [CSIS] focus[es] on cyber attacks on government agencies, defense and high tech companies, or economic crimes with losses of more than a million dollars.
CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government. The U.S. has launched a new digital offensive against Russia. A New York Times report reveals that the U.S. has allegedly launched cyber-intrusions into Russia’s power grid. Are we witnessing the start of a digital “cold war”? Could…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/06/israel-retaliates-to-a-cyber-attack-with-immediate-physical-action-in-a-world-first/#3b4b9631f895 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in immediate response to an alleged cyber-assault. The IDF hit a building in the Gaza Strip with an airstrike after claiming the site had been used by Hamas cyber operatives to attack Israel’s cyber space.
North Korea has called for US secretary of state Mike Pompeo to be removed from nuclear talks because of his “reckless” and “immature” behavior, according to reports. The official KCNA news agency quoted Kwon Jong-gun, a senior foreign ministry official, as accusing Mr Pompeo of “fabricating stories like a fiction writer.” https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/ Kwon concludes:…
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/03/30/tweeting-trump-injects-white-house-into-seal-war-crimes-case/ With a Saturday morning Twitter message, President Donald J. Trump ordered the Navy to modify the detention of Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, who is behind bars awaiting a court-martial trial in San Diego for allegedly stabbing to death an Islamic State prisoner. “In honor of his…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/text-space-policy-directive-4-establishment-united-states-space-force/ (a) The term “United States Space Force” refers to a new branch of the United States Armed Forces to be initially placed by statute within the Department of the Air Force. ***** Sec. 7. Associated Elements. (a) A Unified Combatant Command for space, to be known as the United…
(United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation. [1941] https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc495/) “It’s so much money, I don’t know what to do with it … But on the wall, they skimped…I could do the wall over a longer period of time, I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it faster. I…
