China Forms ‘New Axis of Collaborators’ With Pakistan and Taliban 

The communist regime in China has created a new alliance to challenge the United States and Western democracy, according to Johnnie Moore, a former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commissioner. “They’re creating a new axis of collaborators against the Western democratic order,” Moore said, referring to the alliance of China, Pakistan, and the … Continued

Afghan Militants Fire Rockets at Kabul Airport as U.S. Nears Withdrawal

. . Afghan militants fired rockets at Kabul’s airport as the U.S. rushed to complete its evacuation mission in Afghanistan before Tuesday’s deadline to leave the country, with U.S. counter-rocket defenses deployed to intercept them. While no group claimed immediate responsibility for Monday’s rocket attack, the U.S. has repeatedly warned of imminent threats by Islamic … Continued

Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases 

Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure’s flagship Cosmos DB database. A … Continued

China Launches Massive War Exercises Near Taiwan 

The Chinese military is ramping up massive military exercises in the South China Sea intended to brush back the United States as the Biden administration pleads with the Taliban to bring Americans back home from Afghanistan. People’s Liberation Army Navy forces are conducting drills in the South China Sea, Yellow Sea, and Bohai Strait near … Continued

Microsoft, Amazon meet with White House as 500,000 cybersecurity jobs unfilled

Microsoft, Amazon meet with White House as 500,000 cybersecurity jobs unfilled . . . President Biden on Wednesday afternoon will host a White House meeting focusing on cybersecurity with the leaders of several industries. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will be among the executives representing the tech sector. Bank of … Continued

The Biggest Winner Of The War In Afghanistan Wasn’t The Taliban

The U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan concluded with the Taliban taking control of the Middle East country as it had prior to the 2001 invasion, but the biggest winner of the conflict may not have been the Islamist militant group but instead China. China is in a more favorable strategic position now that its top … Continued

Taliban Issues Direct Threat To Joe Biden

The Taliban won’t accept President Joe Biden’s potential extension for withdrawing in Afghanistan, a spokesperson told Sky News. The U.S. appeared caught off guard by the swift Taliban takeover, sending in more troops to control the Kabul airport and aid in evacuation efforts earlier in August. With the withdrawal deadline of Aug. 31 inching closer, … Continued

‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data

U.S. officials racing to evacuate Afghan allies have limited time before another threat comes into play: vast digital data stores that will expose Afghans’ ties to American operations on a massive scale once in Taliban hands. Telecom companies store reams of records on who Afghan users have called and where they’ve been. Government databases include records … Continued

Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban’s new U.S.-made war chest

About a month ago, Afghanistan’s ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. “They’ll continue to see a steady drumbeat of that kind of support, going forward,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters a few days later at the Pentagon. In … Continued

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