Oil refineries in Basra operated by US defence contractor Halliburton have been struck. 
As the Gulf states of the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia suffer fresh attacks and bombardments continue in Lebanon and Iran, independent reporting speculates that supplies of both ballistics and countermeasures are beginning to dwindle, with the US claiming that firepower on Tehran was to surge dramatically in the coming days and Trump saying there would be no further negotiations and would only accept unconditional surrender, the world still guessing about his endgame. An Iranian frigate was sunk outside of the theatre of war, returning from training manoeuvres off the coast of Pakistan by American naval forces, the first such expansion since WWII. Russian intelligence is supplying Iran with telemetry on US targets in the region.
synchronoptica
one year ago: the Silla Smile (with synchronopticรฆ) plus assorted links to revisit
thirteen years ago: historical monetary unions
fourteen years ago: human-robot collaborations
fifteen years ago: cooking by substitiution
