The al-Qaeda offshoot is focused on defending its territory from Russian-backed Syrian government forces, but it has also clashed with the Islamic State recently.
Several members of the Syrian militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham were killed in Russian airstrikes early Monday morning.
The recent coup in Niger threatens to unleash more private military and security companies on a continent where they have become steadily more powerful in recent decades.
Now we are used to the fact that the word “networks” is associated with social networks on the Internet. However, even social media is a broader phenomenon than internet apps. First of all, it is about social interaction among various groups of the population.
Steven Simon, ancien fonctionnaire de la Maison-Blanche, a écrit un livre sur l’influence des États-Unis au Moyen-Orient, qui offre une vision assez différente de la dynamique des relations entre les États-Unis et Israël.
Un ancien haut fonctionnaire de la Maison-Blanche, Steven Simon, qui a été conseiller pour le Moyen-Orient au sein de l’administration Obama, a écrit un livre. Sacré livre. Alors que la région se trouve à un point d’inflexion stratégique, Simon affirme sans ambages que les États-Unis n’ont tout simplement pas «le jus», ni l’intérêt stratégique, de s’impliquer dans la crise israélienne : Le fait est «simplement que ce n’est pas notre problème».
Le coup d’État du 26 juillet au Niger, un pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, qui menace de saper la présence militaire française et américaine dans la région, a mis en lumière l’exploitation historique et les pratiques en cours de la Françafrique, le terme utilisé pour décrire l’exploitation persistante par les Français.
Jeu de 6 entre les marchands d’hommes, les djihadistes, la Russie, la Chine, les États-Unis et les pays européens.
L’Afrique est un continent de plus en plus sollicité, riche en matières premières convoitées par tous, mais extrêmement pauvre.
Sur fond de contestation grandissante sur le continent, le gouvernement français assure qu’il a appris de ses erreurs au Sahel et qu’il va revoir son dispositif militaire en Afrique. Une nouvelle architecture réfléchie sans le moindre débat démocratique, et qui a tout l’air d’un simple ravalement de façade.
Turkey’s efforts to expand its influence in Africa often align with those of Russia, with both Ankara and Moscow holding back from condemning military coups and seeking to capitalize on post-colonial resentments.
A series of military takeovers in West Africa, the latest occurring in Niger last month, reveal the extent to which Turkish and Russian efforts converge in trying to leverage political shifts to the detriment of former colonial powers, chief among them France, and expand their own influence in the region.
US officials suggest that the Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham really was behind the death of Islamic State leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi.
The Islamic State confirmed the death of its most recent leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi, on Aug. 3. The jihadist group said its self-styled “caliph” had been killed in clashes with the rival Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the al-Qaeda offshoot that is dominant in Syria’s Idlib province, and not by Turkey back in April, as Ankara previously claimed. IS said HTS, which it called “Turkey’s tail,” had handed his body over to Turkish intelligence in a recorded message posted on the Telegram messaging app.
Joshua Keating, a foreign policy analyst, staff writer, and author of the World blog at Slate, and a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy magazine in an article updated on January 2022 wrote that “war over Taiwan would likely involve the largest and most complex amphibious invasion ever mounted. Were the conflict to drag on, it might well evolve into a building-to-building, mountaintop-to-mountaintop ground war in one of the most densely populated and economically advanced countries on Earth. And that’s just in Taiwan itself”.