Mike Fredenburg

‘This is not a theoretical risk—it is an active threat,’ a multi-agency advisory warned. |Updated: Several U.S. government agencies have said that cyber actors are attempting to hack into devices made by industrial systems company Siemens that are used to monitor water and other critical infrastructure systems.

Commentary The charge of genocide leveled against Israel in Gaza fails every legal and factual test. Genocide, as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, requires specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such. It is not measured solely by body counts or the inevitable horrors of urban combat. Intent matters.

Civilian operations at Hmeimim and Tartous will shift to Syria as the military bases become joint training centers under a new memorandum. Damascus and Russia have reached a memorandum of understanding to end Moscow’s presence at its remaining bases in Syria, including transferring civilian facilities to Syrian state management and converting Russian military bases into joint training centers. Quoting the ministry’s Media and Communications Department on Aug.