The recent military movement by the Israeli forces in the northern front along the Lebanese borders and also in regions bordering Gaza Strip is seen by some observers as Tel Aviv’s ground-making to take offensive moves in the near future.
A report by the Conflict Armament Research group said that overall more than 50 companies, in over 20 countries, produced or distributed goods that ISIS forces subsequently used to make IEDs, drones and improvised weapon systems.
NÉGOCIATIONS. Arrêté fin octobre en Algérie, un ancien élément des groupes armés du nord du Mali révèle les détails de la libération des terroristes contre celle des otages.
L’Éthiopie et le conflit dans la province du Tigré est toujours à l’agenda de plusieurs organisations internationales, mais sans grand résultat pour l’instant. Et les autorités fédérales n’entendent pas transiger.
Le Secrétaire général de l’ONU, António Guterres, s’est dit lundi très préoccupé par la situation actuelle dans la province du Tigré en Éthiopie et a estimé « essentiel de restaurer rapidement l’Etat de droit, dans le plein respect des droits de l’homme».
As a jihadi insurgency spreads across the Sahel, EU countries are responding to France’s call for increased troop deployments in the region. A Franco-Estonian elite unit, styled Task Force Takuba, has arrived in northern Mali and is based near the city of Gao. Czech and Swedish forces are due to arrive soon. From media reports, the deployments go beyond the training and support of indigenous military.
Then there is the Turkish Hezbollah, a Sunni violent organization that aims to found a Kurdish-Islamic state based on sharia. Although the Turkish Hezbollah is not to be confused with the Lebanese Hezbollah, it too has links with the Shia regime in Iran.
Now they [the Europeans] find themselves locked into what they know is a phoney and highly dangerous nuclear agreement that simply consigns confrontation with a nuclear-armed Iran to future generations.
They [the Iranian leadership] look at Europeans, as well as Americans, with contempt, as weak and decadent, lacking the courage or resolve to stick up for their own interests…. President Trump gave them pause for thought, especially when he ordered the death of Qasem Soleimani…. They have higher hopes of Biden, whom they expect to be more supine.
A war memoir written by a former Russian paratrooper who fought in Syria for the Kremlin-backed mercenary Wagner Group, owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a plutocrat nicknamed “Putin’s chef,” had been eagerly awaited.
Taiwan has two defense procurement deals with the United States in the pipeline for 2021, worth approximately US$8 billion, Vice Defense Minister Chang Che-ping (張哲平) said Monday during a legislative hearing.