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Drone strike on U.S. diplomatic facility in Baghdad Proves that One Mistake Is All It Takes
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Drone strike on U.S. diplomatic facility in Baghdad Proves that One Mistake Is All It Takes

A drone strike on a major U.S. diplomatic facility occurred on March 10, 2026, during which multiple drones of unknown origin were launched at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center. Currently, no injuries have been reported, and all personnel were accounted for after the strike. What worries me is the idea that the defense systems in…

An AWS datacenter campus, the kind of large stationary structure a drone can easily find.
Amazon

Drones Hit Amazon’s Datacenters. The Cloud Just Got a Lot More Fragile.

Three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East are offline. Two were directly struck by drones in the UAE. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike close enough to knock it out, as The Register reported. This is the first time in history that a military adversary has successfully attacked a…

U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Photo Credits: Axios
United States

A U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia Just Got Hit by Iranian Drones

The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was struck by two drones overnight, triggering a fire and “minor material damage”, according to Saudi officials. No injuries were reported, but the message was loud anyway: US citizens need to get out of Saudi Arabia, and fast. Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said the drones hit the embassy…

Shahed Drones Now Shoot Back: Russia Arms Kamikaze With MANPADS
Ukraine

Ukraine Destroys Shahed Drone Relay Stations in Belarus, Cutting Moscow’s Eyes Over Kyiv

The Shahed-136’s most dangerous feature was never its warhead. It was the mesh network quietly stitching dozens of drones together mid-flight, turning each surviving drone into a signal repeater for every other. Ukrainian signals intelligence just severed that network at its root — by destroying the relay stations Russia had been running off Belarusian soil.…

Ukraine’s Alpha Gets 25,000 Strike Drones
Ukraine

Ukraine’s Alpha Gets 25,000 Strike Drones

A tidal wave of drones has just landed in the hands of one of Ukraine’s most capable special units. Soldiers from the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, better known as Alpha, have received more than 25,000 drones from the Come Back Alive Foundation. According to the foundation, this marks the…

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