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Afghanistan – Will Taliban victory mark the beginning of the end of the western empire? (Middle East Eye)

David Hearst When the US invaded Afghanistan on 7 October 2001, the cover of Time magazine proclaimed: "The Last Days of the Taliban." Thus began what became known as "the war...

Afghanistan/Turkey – Afghanistan: Turkish foreign minister says Taliban statements ‘positive’ (Middle East Eye)

Turkey on Tuesday welcomed Taliban statements as “positive” after the group promised to protect foreign embassies and issued a general amnesty for state employees. Turkish...

Egypt/Israel/Hamas – Report: Egypt seeking to avoid renewed escalation between Israel and Hamas (Middle East Eye)

Egypt has made contact with Israel and leaders of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to prevent renewed military escalation, according to a...

Israel/Palestine – In Israel, the cold-blooded killing of Palestinians is met with silence (Middle East Eye)

Gideon Levy Superficially, things are relatively quiet these days in the Israeli-occupied territories. There are no Israeli casualties, almost no attacks in the West Bank and certainly...

Syria – Syrian Islamist opposition leader slammed for misogynist remarks (Al Monitor)

Khaled al-Khateb The visit of the head of the opposition Syrian Islamic Council (SIC) to Azaz, which is under the control of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army...

Iraq – Iraq moves to protect state property (Al Monitor)

Mustafa Saadoun The Baghdad Operations Command was tasked Aug. 12 with protecting the Baghdad municipal team, which has been carrying out a major campaign to remove all encroachments...

Afghanistan/USA – Pentagon rushes more reinforcements to Kabul airport as panic disrupts evacuations (Al Monitor)

Jared Szuba The Biden administration went on the defensive Monday after US troops rushed to restore order as chaos broke out at the Afghan capital's...

Cybersecurity – Critical IoT security camera vulnerability allows attackers to remotely watch live video – and gain access to networks (ZDNet)

Danny Palmer Security vulnerabilities in millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including connected security cameras, smart baby monitors and other digital video recording equipment,...

TechInnovation – ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, joins the Open Invention Network (ZDNet)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols With over a billion users, TikTok owns the short video content market. It became the leader because it was the right service at the right...

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