On Saturday evening, unknown assailants assassinated one of the most prominent leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, in Daraa. They shot and immediately killed him on the Saida-Ghariya road.
Jahmani is Hezbollah’s first man in Daraa since 2019. He welcomed several Hezbollah and Iranian generals in mid-2019 and called prominent figures in Saida for a meeting to urge the region’s youth to volunteer in the pro-Iranian National Defense Militia.
На саммите Евросоюза в Брюсселе состоялась “самая острая дискуссия за последние несколько лет”. Двухчасовое обсуждение, “временами эмоциональное”, было посвящено — нет, не необходимости организовать в ближайшее время саммит с Путиным, который предложили провести Меркель и Макрон.
Обсуждали действия “европейского Путина”, давно уже вызывающего у евроинтеграторов изжогу. “Ты пересек красную линию! Это не та Европа, в которой я хочу жить!” — возмущался премьер-министр Люксембурга. “Я намерен поставить их на колени. На этот раз все зашло слишком далеко! Им больше нечего делать в ЕС”, — добавлял премьер Нидерландов. “Позор! Исключить!” — все это кричали премьер-министру Венгрии Виктору Орбану, требуя от него объяснений из-за принятого на днях в Венгрии закона о запрете пропаганды ЛГБТ (в том числе в школах и среди несовершеннолетних). Лидеры 17 из 27 стран подписали обращение к Орбану с призывом отменить закон — но венгерский премьер стоял на своем. Защищаем семьи — и все тут.
Les circonstances du décès de son président de père, Idriss Déby Itno, son ambition pour le pays, ses intentions personnelles, ses liens avec le reste de sa fratrie… Pour la première fois, le nouveau chef de l’État tchadien s’exprime.
Quand on lui demande, histoire de tester ses éventuelles arrière-pensées, s’il préfère figurer en couverture de JA en militaire ou en civil, Mahamat Idriss Déby répond dans un demi-sourire : « les deux ». Manière d’éviter un piège trop évident bien sûr, lui qui se sait scruté de près par les Tchadiens et la communauté internationale.
On June 26, 2021, four Districts were captured by the Taliban. These Districts include Shor Tapa in Balkh Province, Chak and Sayed Abad in Maidan Wardak Province, and Rustaq in Takhar Province.
On June 25, 2021, Taliban militants took control over Dolina District in Ghor Province.
An investigative report says that Russian operatives in the Central African Republic who had been billed as unarmed advisers are actually leading the fighting, including massacres of civilians.
Russian mercenaries deployed in one of Africa’s most fragile countries killed civilians, looted homes and shot dead worshipers at a mosque during a major military operation earlier this year, United Nations investigators have found.
The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict, even as the prime minister says there is “no hunger” there.
The hunger crisis in Tigray is the world’s worst in a decade, and the new famine findings are “terrifying,” the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said Friday, adding that millions more people are at risk.
MSF says it condemns attack on colleagues ‘in strongest possible terms’ after bodies found near car
Three aid workers who had been working in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have bee found dead, their organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, announced on Friday.
La multiplication des contestations populaires n’y change rien : nos dirigeants peinent à se montrer à la hauteur des nouveaux challenges que le continent doit relever. Plus préoccupant, ils ne prennent toujours pas la mesure des aspirations d’une jeunesse désoeuvrée mais connectée, qui ne souffre plus aujourd’hui ce que ses parents enduraient hier. Comment sortir de l’impasse ?
When the group known as the Islamic State declared its caliphate in June 2014, it did so with a promise that it was not just an organization engaged in fighting, but in governing as well. As a result, the group’s pursuit of “stateness” required an investment in more than just battlefield advances. It also had to demonstrate a capability to create institutions that ostensibly served the dual purposes of imposing its interpretation of order on people while also improving the lives of its citizens.
While much has been written about the various bureaucratic agencies and institutions created by the Islamic State during the highwater mark of its tenure in Iraq and Syria, still relatively little is known about the size and scope of those institutions, or the personnel power needed to sustain them. Through analysis of a small number of key primary source documents, this report offers a glimpse at both facets, demonstrating that the Islamic State created intricate organizational structures to support its governance efforts, but also that the group’s funding supported tens of thousands of individuals and their families in Iraq.
Although it has lost much of its territorial holdings in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has continued to show interest in governance there and in its affiliate provinces around the world, making the information contained in this report an important baseline against which to compare the group’s ongoing efforts.
Despite progresses in the negotiations, the parties have announced that some “serious” differences have not been bridged.
Iran’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday urged the parties in the Vienna talks to make their decisions on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).