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State Dept official: ISIS ‘resurgence’ more likely if American, other foreign fighters stay detained in Syria

Timothy Betts said it is better for prisoners’ home countries to repatriate them so they are no longer in the region A State Department official warned that the large number of non-Syrian fighters currently detained in Northeast Syria would pose less of a risk to global security if they went …

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Hezbollah threatens Israel with escalation in border spat

The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group threatened Israel with military escalation Wednesday if a future deal over the disputed maritime border between the two countries is not in Lebanon’s favor. Sayyed Hassan Narallah said in a televised speech that Lebanon should be able to extract oil and gas in …

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Securing the energy transition against cyber threats

As the US energy sector’s reliance on digitalization grows, its vulnerability to cyberattacks also increases. To better understand current and future threats, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center convened the Atlantic Council Task Force on Cybersecurity and the Energy Transition to develop a cybersecurity framework designed to protect US energy …

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