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May 3, 2013
8:08 am

NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel (center), with NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas (left), and NBC photographer John Kooistra (right), after they were taken hostage in Syria. Undated amateur video posted on the Internet. (photo credit: AP)

In Syria, it’s open season on journalists, says rights group

Amnesty International report states government, as well as some rebel groups, actively targeting reporters

By Raphael Satter

August 29, 2012
3:07 pm

Illustrative photo of costumed World of Warcraft players dressed as night elf druids (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Elvis untot, Wikimedia Commons)

Iranians banned from fantasy warfare

‘World of Warcraft’ enthusiasts can’t play due to real-life sanctions

By Raphael Satter

August 25, 2012
9:50 am

Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, speaking at a ceremony in Louisiana in July, acknowledges that cyberattacks against opponents in Afghanistan have been launched -- an unusually explicit acknowledgment of the oft-hidden world of electronic warfare. (photo credit: Gerald Herbert/AP)

US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan

In an unusually explicit acknowledgment, Richard Mills says cyberweapons are a vital part of US Army’s arsenal

By Raphael Satter