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Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins had a funny response after throwing his 301st career touchdown pass i the Raiders' Week 1 win on Sunday.

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Amazon Says Cloud Infrastructure In Bahrain, UAE 'Beyond Saving'

Via The Cradle

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it cannot restore access to its cloud-computing facility in Bahrain or one of three data-hosting zones in the UAE due to the extensive damage caused by Iranian retaliatory strikes, Reuters reported on 15 September.

"The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," AWS reported in its status update seen by Reuters.

via Stars & Stripes

In the UAE, resources and data held exclusively within one zone, labeled mec1-az2, have been damaged beyond hope of recovery, the company said, as engineers are still salvaging what they can from the two other battered zones and across the wider Emirati region. 

An availability zone refers to a cluster of one or more data centers sitting inside the same geographic region, the structure AWS relies on to keep services running when a single site goes down.

The outages trace back to March, when the US and Israel attacked Iran, and Tehran responded with missile and drone salvos against Israel and Gulf states hosting US military bases. 

AWS confirmed at the time that two of its UAE facilities took direct hits, while a drone strike near one of its Bahraini sites left the infrastructure there destroyed.

Most Bahrain-based customers shifted their workloads elsewhere on AWS advice before the region went dark in April, but the company says it has now exhausted every option for recovering whatever was left behind.

The losses have called into question the resilience of the Gulf's fast-expanding cloud and AI infrastructure. The UAE is already redrawing plans to war-proof a major AI data center project, weighing decentralized site building alongside underground and blast-resistant construction, and even equipping the data center itself with anti-air defenses.

Israel and the US have long ago transformed AI infrastructure into a weapon of war deployed extensively across West Asian theaters. 

Cloud platforms, data centers, and high-capacity computing systems now help store intelligence, process intercepted communications, analyze surveillance, and support military operations across West Asia, extensively so in Gaza and Iran. 

Iran maintains that data centers operated by US technology companies are not simply civilian facilities, but strategic assets supporting US and Israeli aggression, thereby making them legitimate targets for retaliation.

AI has become a central instrument of US and Israeli warfare across West Asia, embedded in how targets are chosen, tracked, and struck. 

Israel has weaponized AI platforms including automated targeting systems like The Gospel, Lavender, and Where’s Daddy? to harvest mass data, autonomously generate kill lists, and orchestrate systematic airstrikes and assassinations against Palestinians. 

Backed by corporate infrastructure like Microsoft Azure, which stored massive caches of intercepted Palestinian communications, the Israeli military has deployed AI-driven drone surveillance to track and assassinate Palestinians.

Iran Destroyed An Amazon Data Center In Bahrain

The US has run algorithmic warfare systems such as Palantir's Maven to process satellite, drone, and radar intelligence, using machine learning to speed the production of targeting recommendations against Iranian forces.

More than 1,000 targets were designated within the first 24 hours of the war on Iran, one of which resulted in the massacre of at least 150 people, including at least 120 schoolchildren at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 22:35

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Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event

Syria's fuel price hike protests have persisted from Sunday into the heart of this week, and increasingly they are becoming full on anti-Sharaa regime demonstrations. Of course Sharaa - whose al Qaeda/ISIS name is Jolani - was never elected in the first place.

Monday into Tuesday the protests have spread across multiple cities and governates, including Raqqa in the east and Aleppo in the north.

Syria's self-declared President at the Arab Media Summit 2026 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday.

Demonstrators have been burning tires, blocking highways, and confronting security forces after Damascus announced sudden massive increase in fuel prices.

A RESULT OF NEOLIBERAL SHOCK THERAPY in wake of CIA-ORCHESTRATED REGIME CHANGE

Sunday saw authorities raise diesel prices by up to 40% and petrol prices by 28%, after not just years but decades of government regulated price controls and subsidies. 

Already the country was smashed by proxy war and sweeping US-led sanctions, not to mention a decade-long US troop occupation of Syria's oil and gas fields in the northeast, which strangled the population (as part of efforts to overthrow secular Ba'ath leader Bashar al-Assad). 

The West and Gulf powers then gave its backing to Jolani as self-declared president once Assad was ousted in December 2024. He had literally been a member of ISIS and was a founder of Syrian al-Qaeda (Nusra Front, later HTS). Washington, London, Riyadh, and Paris have embraced him - after they and their intelligence services basically put him in power.

Large protests are erupting in Syria, with many people calling for the step down of the Al Qaeda regime leader, Jolani

This video shows protests in Aleppo. pic.twitter.com/39rKf2ictq

— Brian’s Breaking News and Intel (@intelFromBrian) September 14, 2026

When last month Washington finally lifted most sanctions on Damascus, the population hoped this might translate into the common people finally catching a break.

But alas, outrage is spilling into the streets over Jolani regime incompetence. 

Read: Prolific Recruiter Of Teenage Suicide Bombers Earns US Sanctions Relief, Days Before 9/11 Anniversary

Aside from the ISIS pedigree of the US-backed government in Damascus, one Syrian commenter has outlined examples of Jolani/Sharaa regime incompetence:

1) We have no Prime Minister - Al Sharaa is the de facto PM

2) There is no unified 3-5-10 yr strategy that drives how every ministry works.

3) This means each ministry working on its own. Yes ministers are checking with the presidency on the priorities and deliverables, but they are working with or cross referencing with the wider cabinet.

4) I dont think the ministers meet that often with the president (acting PM).

5) These alignment mtgs are integral. Syria must have a national strategy, with clear cut objectives & plans for every ministry, defining how they all work towards a common goal.

Tonight's Syria fuel hike protests are larger and angrier than yesterday's

Currently protests and road blocks are ongoing in several Syrian governorates

If jolani regime fails to appease them by Thursday, then expect major escalation on Friday (after Friday prayers) pic.twitter.com/iQ4mVfijdf

— The'Nimr'Tiger (@Souria4Syrians) September 14, 2026

Some reports say the people are even calling for the return of Assad, echoed in popular street chants heard in some of the protests.

Other pundits have alleged violent tactics by security groups, including firing off live rounds to disperse the protests.

Slogans calling for Assad's return spark alarm in Syria —SOHR

Largest protests since Al-Sharaa took power spread, with roads blocked for days after fuel prices raised

‘Even with the world sanctioning Assad, prices never reached this level’ — protester confronts security forces pic.twitter.com/hrdIuItVFC

— RT Intl (@RT_on_X) September 14, 2026

From Sunday:

DropSite: Residents blocking the Damascus–Aleppo international highway near Maarrat al-Nu’man, south of Idlib, on Sunday, as protests spread following government increases in fuel prices.

🇸🇾⛽️ Protests erupt across Syria over fuel price hikes and rising cost of living

Footage circulating online shows residents blocking the Damascus–Aleppo international highway near Maarrat al-Nu’man, south of Idlib, on Sunday, as protests spread following government increases in… pic.twitter.com/mVwMUhu5qx

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 14, 2026

Protests in the east, nearly formerly US-occupied oil fields...

انتفا//ضة غضب في ريف دير الزور.. الأهالي يها//جمون موكب مسؤولي حكومة الجولاني قرب حقل العمر.#سوريا#V_News#وكالة_فيديو_الإخبارية pic.twitter.com/bReSVKjKP2

— V News (@VAgencyia) September 15, 2026

Where has President Sharaa been this week? He's getting the red carpet treatment in Dubai for the "Arab Media Summit 2026".

The following is deeply ironic as various places in Syria burn amid enraged demonstrations:

Al-Sharaa, who spoke at the summit’s “Syria of the Future” event, also met with Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Dubai’s crown prince, and Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Dubai’s second deputy ruler, who is also the chairman of the Dubai Media Council, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.

Over a decade ago, Jolani's al-Nusra Front was introduced to Syria and on the world stage via its squadrons of suicide bombers...

In 2013, Jolani sent 2 suicide bombers belonging to his organisation the Nusra front

They destroyed Al Kindi hospital

Al Kindi hospital was one of the best & modern hospitals in Syria. It provided free treatment to the public

Today the hospital is gone, & Jolani is "president" pic.twitter.com/hh4bJrsGHf

— The'Nimr'Tiger (@Souria4Syrians) September 15, 2026

Should the protests and unrest persist into Friday, which is the Islamic day of prayer and the start of the weekend in the Middle East, the situation could explode. It doesn't seem like Jolani has any answers or strategy at this point. Perhaps he'll hang out in Dubai and with his royal Gulf backers a little longer.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 22:10

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