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SCOOP: We got hold of a classified Russian counterintelligence report on China. It reveals an intensifying intel battle. The FSB worry China is spying on the Arctic, recruiting experts, studying Ukraine, and could even covet land in the Far East.
nytimes.com/2025/06/07/world…
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This is the cover of my new book!
It is a new and intimate portrait of some of the child-Holocaust survivors known as the Boys.
The publisher is @hurstpublishers. More soon!
Algeria sends SU-30s on a "support mission" to Niger. This is really an extremely unusual for Algeria and a very strong show of force in the Sahel. Really shows how serious it is about strengthening its influence in the Sahel.
🔴تنفيذا لتعليمات السيد عبد المجيد تبون رئيس الجمهورية، القائد الأعلى للقوات المسلحة، وزير الدفاع الوطني، الرامية إلى تعزيز علاقات التعاون الاستراتيجي بين الجزائر وجمهورية النيجر في مختلف المجالات، لاسيما منها المجال العسكري، وعقب الأحداث المؤسفة التي وقعت مؤخرا بالعاصمة النيجرية نيامي، في محاولة لزعزعة استقرار البلاد، واستجابة لطلب القيادة النيجرية، أمر السيد الفريق أول السعيد شنڨريحة، الوزير المنتدب لدى وزير الدفاع الوطني، رئيس أركان الجيش الوطني الشعبي، بإرســــــــــــــــــال دوريتين (2) من طائرات قتالية من نوع سوخوي سو- 30 (4 طائرت)، في مهمة دعم للجيش النيجري لمواجهة محاولة زعزعة استقرار دولة النيجر الشقيق.
في هذا الإطار، حطت صباح اليوم 30 أوت 2026، هذه الطائرات القتالية في مطار نيامي بالنيجر، التي كانت مرفوقة بطائرة للتزود بالوقود جوا.
تأتي هذه العملية، لتؤكد مجددا التزام الجزائر الثابت وعزمها على مواصلة جهودها من أجل تعزيز الأمن والاستقرار في المنطقة، وتجدد دعمها الدائم لدولة النيجر حكومة وشعبا لتجاوز هذا الظرف الحساس.
تجدر الإشارة أنه كان في الاستقبال، السيد محمد لمين الزين، الوزير الأول لدولة النيجر الذي أعرب عن شكره وامتنانه للسيد عبد المجيد تبون، رئيس الجمهورية، القائد الأعلى للقوات المسلحة، وزير الدفاع الوطني، وإلى الشعب الجزائري على هذا الدعم النوعي.
#وزارة_الدفاع_الوطني_الجزائرية
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I want to stress again that this is highly unusual for Algerian foreign and security policy. And shows Algeria’s desire to really solidify its relations with the AES states.
#Niger’s🇳🇪 Prime Minister Zeine received an Algerian🇩🇿 delegation today. They arrived on an Il-76 transport aircraft. As a sign of its support for the CNSP, Algeria is stationing four Su-30 fighter aircraft and one Il-78 (reg. 7T-WIS) refuelling aircraft at Niamey airport.
After six months of fighting, Iran can now claim to have secured a major strategic success: it has forced the Americans to fight at a pace set by Tehran. Iran had gambled on escalation and and has so far been vindicated.
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Scoop: US personnel and contractors were stalked in the lead up and early phases of the war in Iran using vulnerabilities in mobile phone networks and commercial advertising data. w/ @MehulAtLarge and @JamesPoliti
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Russia has been forced into a humbling retreat across northern Mali. It has exposed the limits of Africa Corps and is calling into question the future of Russian military adventurism in Africa.
w/ @polinaivanovva
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There have been massive attacks across Mali by JNIM and the FLA. The FLA and JNIM working together is a major shift and fighting back will test not only Bamako, but also Moscow.
"Russia will do everything to turn this around," @UlfLaessing tells me.
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Spoke to @Jacob_Judah on how Iran has been studying the war in Ukraine for its own military adaptations
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Iran has been studying lessons from the war in Ukraine. I combed through Iranian defence journals to find out what commanders, officers, and military academics were researching and worrying about in the lead up to their war with America and Israel.
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NEW: Russia close to completing phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence sources. Talks between Russia and Iran had begun soon after U.S. and Israeli strikes.
With: @HenryJFoy, @maxseddon, and @NeriZilber
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Moments after Israel and the U.S. struck Iran, a mysterious voice began broadcasting numbers in Persian over shortwave radio. Former CIA officers tell me it is likely a last-resort method to send messages to crucial U.S. intelligence assets.
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It goes live twice everyday on 7842kHz. You can listen in on various online shortwave receivers at 18:00 UTC and 2:00 UTC. This is what it sounds like, for anyone curious:
I have been in Greenland speaking to people about Donald Trump wanting to create an American empire in the Arctic. Greenlanders are looking with trepidation to the Alaskan Inupiat, their Inuit cousins, for a sense of how the Americans rule in the Arctic.
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AI and Wikipedia are sending the most vulnerable languages into a linguistic doom loop.
Wikipedia is used to train AI to speak vulnerable languages. But users are now flooding Wikipedia with shoddy AI translations.
Latest in @techreview: technologyreview.com/2025/09…
Little Diomede is the most remote place in America. It is three miles from Russia, across the ice, and is the gateway to the Arctic. It is watched round-the-clock by the Russians.
I went to this strange and sad Alaskan village for The Economist: economist.com/1843/2025/04/0…
There will be many unexpected consequences of climate change. But one of them will be that it becomes harder to find submarines stalking beneath some parts of the oceans. That matters.
I explain how here: nytimes.com/2025/06/12/clima…
