La justice malienne a annoncé mardi soir le lancement d’une enquête visant des leaders locaux d’Al-Qaïda, dont Iyad Ag Ghaly, ainsi que des touaregs, pour actes de terrorisme, financement du terrorisme et détention illégale d’armes de guerre.
Les Nations unies ont accusé vendredi l’armée malienne et des combattants « étrangers » d’avoir exécuté en mars 2022 au moins cinq cent personnes lors d’une opération antijihadiste dans le centre du pays, dans un rapport du Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l’Homme.
Les soulèvements spontanés qui ont eu lieu en Syrie étaient officiellement dirigés par une coalition de « modérés » – la célèbre Armée syrienne libre/ASL – se révoltant contre le régime brutal de Bachar al-Assad. Mais en réalité, il y avait peu de « modérés » en Syrie et il n’y avait pas de soulèvement « spontané ». C’était Jabhat al-Nusra, la version syrienne d’Al-Qaïda, qui menait la révolte. Et il s’agissait d’une révolte dirigée de l’étranger, planifiée de nombreuses années auparavant.
On December 6, 2023, Lebanese Hizbullah’s Al-Ahed News released an exclusive interview with Hamas national relations official Ali Barakah.[1] In the interview, Barakah asserted that Hamas is “doing well” against the Israeli counterattack and that it is fighting in accordance with its predetermined “defensive plan” of action. He also said that Hamas continues to aim to free all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli detention and will use Israeli hostages to that end.
In the Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of the World Order, Samuel Huntington discusses the revival of Islamic values within the Islamic world and discusses the social and cultural work of Islamic organizations within the Islamic societies. When defining the revival of Islamic values these organizations adopted to do positive social and cultural welfare work, Huntington uses the word “resurgence” and describes the organizations as “fundamentalist” organizations. Much of what Huntington writes, he, in fact highlights the impactful social and cultural welfare work in Islamic societies these organizations delivered; yet the reader in the West is led to see the values upon which the welfare activities were carried out as “resurgence” and “fundamentalist” activities. The deliberate use of these two terms, “resurgence” and “fundamentalist” are misleading for the reader in the West who, to the present date, may not understand that Islamic societies and their existence is primarily directed in accordance with Islamic values.
Attributing a role for Syrian refugees in fostering a positive chapter in the beleaguered Türkiye-U.S. relationship may seem like a stretch, but the Türkiye Compact proposed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) leads one to think otherwise.
Can coercive airpower quell a rebellion? Existing literature on the effects of counterinsurgent
violence focuses predominantly on casualties resulting from attacks on civilians. It thus
overlooks the targeting of civilian infrastructure, which is a frequent phenomenon in war. We fill
this gap by examining the targeting of healthcare as one of the most essential infrastructures in
war and peace time. We argue that attacks on medical facilities are distinct from direct violence
against civilians.
Radical attitudes
According to Hamas, it is the religious duty of Muslims to attack Jews. Compromises and agreements as a way to solve the Palestinian issue are expressly rejected and replaced by armed struggle. Hamas first used a suicide bombing in April 1993, five months before PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords, which gave the Palestinians administration in the Gaza Strip and the city of Jericho. On the first morning after the agreement was signed, a Hamas bomber tried to blow up a police station in Gaza. This was followed by three more suicide attacks. In the fifth attack in October 1993, an attack was carried out on the headquarters of the Israeli army in the West Bank.
Traditional religious divisions regularly fuel conflicts in the Middle East. When it comes to the division of Muslims into Sunnis and Shiites, then not only the Middle East is divided, but also the Islamic world. The Sunni-Shia divide is very dangerous, as history shows again and again.
Mali’s military junta succeeded in kicking out the U.N. peacekeeping force, and on Wednesday its Russian allies scored yet another victory against the U.N.: They were able to terminate all U.N. sanctions on Malians and abolish a panel of experts which has been critical of activities of Russia’s Wagner Group in the West African nation.