Soleimani Was More Valuable in Politics Than in War

Iran

2020-01-08 / www.foreignaffairs.com

The Islamic Republic of Iran has suffered a loss with the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, its most prominent military general. The nature and dimensions of that injury, however, are not a simple function of Soleimani's high-profile regional role. The Quds ...

How to Stop Libya’s Collapse

Libya

2020-01-07 / www.foreignaffairs.com

In April 2019, Khalifa Haftar, the militia commander whose forces control much of eastern Libya, began an assault on the capital, Tripoli, in an effort to topple the country's internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). But instead of a ...

Iran 'revenge' could come in the form of cyber-attacks, experts warn

Cybersecurity

2020-01-06 / www.theguardian.com

The US assassination of Qassem Suleimani has increased the likelihood that a decade of cyber-hostilities between the US and Iran could escalate into true cyberwarfare, security experts have warned.
And with tensions mounting and Iran threatening "severe revenge" over the ...

How the Confrontation Between the U.S. and Iran Escalated

Iran

2020-01-03 / www.nytimes.com

The United States ramped up its campaign against Iran early Friday when it killed a top Iranian commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, with a drone strike. Here’s how the situation developed over the last eight days.

Friday, Jan. 3

An ...

The Exclusive Economic Zone between Libya and Turkey

Libya

2019-12-20 / www.newdiplomacy.eu

The Memorandum of Understanding for maritime cooperation between Turkey and Libya of the Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez al-Sarraj was definitively voted by the Turkish Parliament on December 5 last. This economic rather than political MoU, is ...

Theresa May's big golden goodbyes bill

UK

2019-08-05 / www.politico.eu

LONDON - British taxpayers paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds in golden goodbyes during the chaotic Theresa May premiership - including to Boris Johnson and many of his new top team.
Almost £850,000 was paid out to ministers who ...

Congo, child labour and your electric car

Industry

2019-07-07 / www.ft.com

Kongolo Mashimango Reagen used to spend his days carrying 25kg sacks of cobalt from small mines in a southern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is so rich in minerals that large deposits can be found just metres ...

The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment

Organized crime

2018-07-24 /

Today, the criminal market spans the planet: illicit goods are sourced from one continent, trafficked across another and marketed in a third.Transnational crime has become a threat to peace and development, even to the sovereignty of nations," warned the head ...

The Decade's Biggest Financial Crimes

Financial crime

2018-07-10 / www.businessinsider.com

White collar crime, this is your decade....Some are in jail, some are awaiting their day in court, some are dead.
There are chief executives, lawyers, and money managers. Some were only modestly talented in concealing their fraud; others ran elaborate ...

Turkey used German spy software on opposition politicians and activists

surveillance

2018-05-15 / www.dw.com

The Turkish government used a German-made spy program to infiltrate the smartphones of Turkish opposition members, according to a report seen by German media.

Germany has strict rules for exporting spy software and has in the past vowed to block exports ...

Computer vision: teaching machines to see the world like us

Artificial Intelligence

2019-05-17 / www.raconteur.net

Building computers with enough intelligence to perform tasks that are as complex as those carried out by the human body is difficult; obviously it is. As we now strive to bring the advantages of computer vision to modern IT systems, ...

China Pushes for Primacy in Space

Space

2018-12-31 / www.wsj.com

In a first for any country, the Chang'e-4 probe is set to touch down on the "dark side" of the moon on or around Jan. 3, according to state media, and dispatch a rover in a vast crater to explore ...

Israel’s tech entrepreneurs struggle to lure overseas talent

Human Resources

2018-07-04 / www.ft.com

Visa problems, concerns about safety and lower salaries deter foreign engineers.

Liad Agmon has run and sold two Israeli technology start-ups and is expanding his third one, Dynamic Yield. This provides services to at least half a billion customers of global ...

Machine Learning: Things Are Getting Intense

Machine Learning

2018-05-14 / Deloitte Global

Five key trends will likely cause a significant uptick in enterprise use of machine learning this year, according to Deloitte Global.

Large and medium-sized enterprises will step up their use of machine learning in 2018, Deloitte Global predicts, doubling the number ...

Invisible Innovations Will Drive Smartphone Development

Smartphone

2018-05-14 / http://deloitte.wsj.com

Five years from now, smartphones may look pretty much the way they do today. Internally, however, they are likely to be very different.

In the decade-plus of their existence, full touchscreen smartphones have upended nearly every aspect of everyday life, transforming ...

Is ISIS gaining ‘serious’ ground in Afghanistan? Russia says yes. The US says no.

Foreign Fighters

2018-03-27 / www.militarytimes.com

Over the last two months, Afghan security forces and U.S. targeting has eliminated more than 140 ISIS-Khorasan fighters. And while the pressure on ISIS-K coincides with pressure to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government, officials ...

Escape from Isil : Syrian prisons and safe houses overrun with fleeing jihadists (Part 2)

ISIS

2017-12-03 / www.telegraph.co.uk

The messages from Syria ping on Aghiad al-Kheder’s phone all through the day and night. Sometimes it can be overwhelming, but he knows he cannot afford to ignore a single one.

“Yes, no, no, I don’t recognise this one,” Mr Kheder ...

Escape from Isil : The British fighter who went to remarkable lengths to quit Islamic State (Part 1)

ISIS

2017-12-02 /

The British Isil fighter was so confident he would make it out from Syria to Turkey that he packed little more than a change of clothes, a phone and a torch.

Shabazz Suleman had paid the right people: $1,000 (£750) to ...

In Egypt, Furious Retaliation but Failing Strategy in Sinai

Egypt

2017-11-25 / www.nytimes.com

After militants massacred 305 people at a packed mosque on Friday in a stunning assault on a sacred place, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi responded as he knows best.

Mr. Sisi went on television vowing to “take revenge” and strike back with ...

IS, Boko Haram won't be defeated unless corruption tackled: NGO

Corruption

2017-02-21 / www.al-monitor.com

Western governments need to step up their efforts to combat corruption if they are to defeat jihadists such as the Islamic State group and Boko Haram, Transparency International warned .

Corrupt practices in states such as Nigeria, Libya and Iraq are ...