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As Lebanon comes under growing attack by Israel, tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who had fled to Lebanon are finding themselves scrambling to return home. The Islamist government in Syria has reported some 40,000 people have crossed back in from Lebanon in recent days. At the same time this is going on, Syria is […]

Amazon's Cloud Unit In Bahrain "Disrupted" By Iranian Strike Just one day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened U.S. companies across the Middle East, the Financial Times reported late Tuesday morning that an IRGC strike had damaged Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure in Bahrain.  The FT cited Bahrain's interior ministry, which said civil defense teams were "extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company as a result of the Iranian aggression." Local authorities did not identify the company, disclose the type of air-delivered munition used, and/or provide further operational details about the strike. But according...

US Breakthrough Could Build Hypersonic Shields, Rocket Parts In A Fraction Of The Time Authored by Christopher McFadden via Interesting Engineering, John Hopkins APL researchers have found a way to dramatically speed up the way that carbon-carbon composites can be created. The new approach, the research team explains, could replace the current slow, labor-intensive process, ultimately slashing the cost of production. Representative image of a carbon composite.Unsplash/Lawless Capture/Johns Hopkins "That speed is what makes FAST CAR2 so compelling," said Sal Nimer, assistant manager of APL's Science of Extreme and Multifunctional Materials program. "It...