The tragic death of 37 migrants in Melilla underlines the Moroccan regime’s authoritarian security policy.
On 24 June, around 2 000 sub-Saharan African migrants, who had gathered the night before in north-eastern Morocco, set off at dawn to cross the border and reach the Spanish city of Melilla, about 4 km away.
The revenue crunch will make it difficult to counter the surge in violence from Boko Haram and other groups.
Nigeria now spends more than it earns just to service its debt – a crisis that raises serious concerns about the government’s ability to finance public infrastructure, civil service salaries, education and healthcare. It also has dire implications for the protracted war against the Boko Haram insurgency.
Israel considers the presence of Iranian drones near its borders as a threat to its security, according to al-Modon.
Israel’s Alma Center for Research and Education reported in a tweet that technical members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), experts in Muhajer 4 and Ababil 3 suicide drones, may have arrived from Damascus airport to the military base in Hama where drones of this type are stored.
The Syrian Brotherhood said the Assad regime is by nature a criminal genocidal regime, that does not accept reform nor partnership, according to Baladi News.
The General Controller of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Dr. Mohammed Hikmat Walid, denied the group’s involvement in the “trap of reconciliation with the Assad regime.”
Meslet met with the Commander of the Military Police Force, Colonel Ahmed al-Kurdi, according to the SOC Media Department.
President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), Salem al-Meslet, is in Northern Syria to meet with civil and military actors.
The two sides stressed that there will no viable solution in Syria outside the UN resolutions, according to SOC Media Department.
The Political Parties and Movements Committee of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) visited the office of the Muslim Brotherhood in Istanbul to discuss the overall field, humanitarian, social and political situation in Syria, in addition to the political life in the future of Syria.
The circumstances of Abboud’s death were not disclosed, the regime only stating that he was killed in the Aleppo governorate, according to Baladi News.
A high-ranking regime army officer was killed on Tuesday, in mysterious circumstances, in Aleppo city.
Recent weeks in Syria have witnessed an escalation of violence between U.S. forces and militias backed by Iran.
Recent weeks in Syria have witnessed an escalation of violence between U.S. forces and militias backed by Iran. According to the opposition website Baladi News, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has stated that two positions of its forces in the fields of Omar and Kuniko, located in Deir-ez-Zor, were hit by rocket attacks on Wednesday evening. In a statement, CENTCOM said that it responded to the attacks using a helicopter, destroying three cars and equipment used to launch missiles.
Newly leaked information from inside Iran, obtained by Iran International, reveals that the Biden administration has made even more concessions to revive the nuclear deal, which have not been revealed to the public. According to the report, “the US guarantees that its sanctions against IRGC would not affect other sectors and firms: e.g. a petrochemical company shouldn’t be sanctioned by US because of doing business with IRGC.”
Taiwan has been the perennial flashpoint between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This has been the case for decades. While each side has consistently pointed to the Three Joint Communiques as the basis of the bilateral US-PRC relationship, the reality has always been that each side had nuanced, if not different, interpretations of these documents, particularly as they pertained to Taiwan.[1] Furthermore, the Shanghai Communique is largely comprised of unilateral statements and declarations that highlight that the two sides held differing opinions on key issues. Additionally, the US also had the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances as relevant framing documents. Despite the incongruous frames of reference (or at least the incongruous interpretations thereof), both sides have historically admonished the other to not change the status quo over Taiwan. On the heels of what many are now referring to as the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, we have to wonder what status quo even means 50 years after the original Shanghai Communique.[2]