Israel has formally acknowledged its role in the 2008 assassination of Brigadier General Mohammad Sleiman, one of the closest military advisers to deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The confirmation came from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and was reported by the Times of Israel on Wednesday evening, 2 September.
A broad consensus has taken shape across Israeli semi-official circles, military commentators and strategic research centers: Syria has entered a new chapter in its modern history. This assessment underlies U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to remove Syria from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, a designation imposed in 1979 over Damascus’s role in the Lebanese Civil War and its support for armed Palestinian factions. Washington’s move is widely viewed as a pivotal step toward reviving Syria’s economy, reconnecting it to global markets and reinforcing regional stability.
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A Cambridge study by Antonia Juelich, based on interviews with 27 former Boko Haram and ISWAP members in northeastern Nigeria (last active in 2024), says those groups now use general AI chat tools not only for propaganda but as a routine “problem-solver” for planning and technical questions. She argues earlier assessments understated how systematic that use has become.
The report claims specialized units and internal training, plus help from foreign IS trainers with laptops and accounts. Interviewees described current content filters as inconvenient rather than blocking: rejected queries are retried on other accounts or recast as fictional. Rand’s Steph Guerra separately notes safeguards are split across firms and countries and work better against lone actors than well-resourced groups.
Neither group is reported to have obtained CBRN weapons. Juelich’s policy point is that companies and governments need stronger, coordinated limits as models improve—without treating AI-aided terrorism as a future problem only.Cette lutte pour l’avenir de l’Ukraine s’intensifie.
Non seulement sur la ligne de front, ou entre les centres de pouvoir locaux à Kiev, mais aussi entre les services de sécurité des «alliés» anglo-américains.
Une récente révélation concernant l’utilisation d’un nouveau système de projectiles de pointe lors des premières phases de la guerre contre l’Iran par Washington constitue une violation flagrante de la tradition de la guerre juste que les États-Unis prétendent appliquer.
Syrian presidential adviser Mazloum Abdi said relations between Syria and Turkey, as well as between the Kurdish side and Turkey, should move onto a “normal and constructive” footing, noting that channels of communication and dialogue between the two sides remain open. His remarks came in interviews with Turkish media published over the past two days.
Israel’s strategy in the Middle East is changing: the country is shifting from a targeted response to threats to a systemic containment of all regional players capable of challenging it. After Iran, Turkey has come into focus.
WASHINGTON—“No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me,” US President Donald Trump posted on social media on Wednesday. But the regime’s failure to agree to a deal, he added, will now result in the United States inflicting “Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
La confrontation géopolitique dans la région du Sahel a franchi un nouveau cap, se transformant en théâtre d’une guerre hybride acharnée. Derrière les récentes attaques terroristes de grande envergure au Mali se cachent les efforts conjoints des services de renseignement français et ukrainiens.
De nouvelles données israéliennes montrent que parmi les citoyens qui quittent le pays, les médecins, les ingénieurs, les professionnels du secteur technologique et les contribuables à hauts revenus, dont dépend l’économie de guerre de l’État d’occupation, sont de plus en plus nombreux.