The head of an Iraqi militia participating in a coalition of groups that have waged attacks against U.S. troops and Israel has told Newsweek that his forces are prepared to escalate their campaign significantly if President Joe Biden does not meet their demands.According to Sheikh Mohammed al-Tamimi, secretary-general of Faylaq al-Waad al-Sadiq, all they are asking for is the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from their country.The group, whose name translates to the "True Promise Corps," is...
The revenue surge could boost the value of TikTok’s US operations as high as $150 billion when applying a Meta-esque multiple to the app’s shares.
US and British officials on Monday filed charges, imposed sanctions, and accused Beijing of a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people including lawmakers, academics and journalists, and companies including defense contractors. Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic nicknamed the hacking group Advanced Persistent Threat 31 or "APT31", calling it an arm of China's Ministry of State Security. Officials reeled off a laundry list of targets: White House staffers, US...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The Islamic State still poses a threat in Iraq and the
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An American government delegation recently traveled to Niger to, according to the State Department, “continue ongoing discussions since August with leaders of the National Council for Safeguarding the Homeland (CNSP) regarding Niger’s return to a democratic path and the future of our security and development partnership.”The CNSP is the junta that took power in Niger in July 2023, in a coup that extended a trend of military takeovers in the Sahel. For the U.S., the Nigerien coup was the most...
Top 40 in the Netherlands has topped the charts since 1965. In today’s episode we look back at pop music events that happened exactly X years ago. Today on this episode: Shocking Blues’ No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 hits Venus. On March 1, 1967, Robbie Van Leeuwen left the band The Motions. […]
The only thing more infuriating than the Iraq war itself is the total lack
Beijing tells the US and UK to stop their own cyber attacks, accusing them of "political manipulation".
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) neutralized the location from which Hamas previously launched rockets towards the city of Ash
A severe geomagnetic storm is now affecting the northern United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a Geomagnetic Storm Alert on Sunday afternoon, March 24 after the G4 electromagnetic storm had developed. The event was sparked by solar eruptions that sent plasma toward Earth. "The public should not anticipate adverse impacts and no action is necessary," the National Weather Service Space Prediction Center said. A geomagnetic storm is a major...
Elsewhere, record-breaking snowfall in Japan and unseasonally high temperatures in South Sudan Last week, central parts of the US experienced a severe outbreak of tornadoes with more than two dozen forming across the states of Ohio and Indiana, resulting in at least three deaths and multiple injuries.A number of intense supercell thunderstorms travelled eastwards across central Indiana late in the afternoon and evening of 14 March, from which tornadoes formed. Many of these were weak with...