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Russian spear-phishing documents leaked by NSA contractor
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Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.
They may have been digging for dirt on the election mechanisms which has been long suggested in the U.S. but unproven.
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That review did not attempt to assess what effect the Russian efforts had on the election, despite the fact that “Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards.” According to the Department of Homeland Security, the assessment reported reassuringly, “the types of systems we observed Russian actors targeting or compromising are not involved in vote tallying.”
Per another recent article, the US is paying bounties to locals for coordinates for the airstrikes so most of the attacks are hitting civilians and friendly troops.
US again providing air support for Al Qaeda in Homs
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The U.S. Coalition has once again bombed the Syrian Armed Forces in southeastern countryside of the Homs Governorate, destroying a number of armored vehicles that advanced towards the Al-Tanf Crossing.
The article explains that the 'moderate' rebels are sent in to become part of Al Qaeda and Islamic State.
Membership between the various factions are fluid.
The first terrorist attacks in more than a decade in Tehran came just over two weeks after Mr. Trump, with Saudi Arabia and its allies, vowed to isolate Iran. Iran has dismissed those remarks, made at a summit meeting in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, as a scheme by Mr. Trump to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has even suggested that Mr. Trump was “milking” Saudi Arabia.
In the view of many in Iran, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is inextricably linked to Saudi Arabia. Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard-line analyst with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said, “ISIS ideologically, financially and logistically is fully supported and sponsored by Saudi Arabia — they are one and the same.”
Iran and Saudi Arabia are the leading nations on the opposing sides of the Middle East split between Shiite and Sunni Islam. Iran has military advisers in Iraq and Syria, and it controls and finances militias in those countries and in Lebanon. Tehran also has some influence over the Houthis fighting the government in Yemen, and it often speaks out in support of Shiites in Bahrain, a majority group that Iran says is repressed by the Sunni monarchy.
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Still unclear whether Britain would reinstate the house arrest orders for terrorism suspects
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Introduced by Tony Blair in 2005, the orders - which allowed suspects to be relocated away from their home communities, subjected to 16-hour home-arrest curfews and barred from using mobile phones or the internet - had won the support of the courts and "may have saved a lot of lives", said the crossbench peer. They were more widely used than the time-limited Tpims brought in by the coalition, which exclude suspects from going to specific places and require them to wear electronic tags and report regularly to the police, but allow them to use mobiles and the internet and to apply to the courts to be able to stay away from home.
Word is that Qatar has reached a deal with Iran. Iran and Qatar will share revenues from a proposed gas pipeline from the offshore Pars gas field to connect to Europe through Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Qatar is expected to withdraw its personnel from the military operations command in Jordan where the coalition coordinates the rebels in Syria. Support for Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other groups must be discontinued for the revenue-sharing to stay in force.
Would not be surprised to see clashes in the north after the ISIS placeholder in Deir Ezzor governorate has been replaced by US and Syrian forces.
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