The essentials
For decades, the border crossings between Lebanon and Syria have served as a life-line for the Lebanese. Over the last forty years, this has been the supply route for Hezbollah. This organization controls the crossings completely and smuggles through them, for example:
Over the last month or two, the western media has been full of talk about “war” with Russia, and potentially other countries as well. For some, “World War 3” is now inevitable, for others “nuclear war” is just around the corner, for still others, because NATO and the West have agreed to transfer weapons that can theoretically strike Russia) this will inevitably “lead to full-scale war,” for still still others, the agreement signed in Pyongyang between Russia and North Korea will inevitably “lead to war”, and for yet others still, the West, and especially the US, is planning some kind of “war with China.” Here in France, serious articles have been written asking whether France will be “at war” with Russia, if the much discussed but so far not implemented proposals to send French specialists to Ukraine actually come about.
The Jordanian Public Security Directorate announced on June 22 that security forces are handling an investigative case in the South Marka area of the capital, Amman, according to the official Jordanian News Agency. Authorities stated that initial investigations indicated several individuals had been storing significant quantities of explosive materials inside a house.
Regional security analysts are warning Nigerian authorities to take caution following a new report that armed militants operating in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have a found their way into northwest Nigeria through the borders of the Republic of Benin.
Wednesday’s security report, “Dangerous Liaisons” by the Dutch research think tank Clingendael Institute, is the latest indicator that militants are migrating from the Sahel to wealthier coastal nations in the region.
Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership has decided to launch a new multi-faceted nationwide counterterrorism campaign amid the country’s deteriorating security situation.
A high-powered meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gave the go ahead for operation “Azm-e-Istehkam,” or Resolve for Stability, to “combat the menaces of extremism and terrorism in a comprehensive and decisive manner,” said a statement issued by the prime minister’s office.
Foreign spy agencies were likely involved to an uncertain extent, but they still relied on radicalized locals to do their dirty work, not their own compatriots.
The southern Russian region of Dagestan was hit by several terrorist attacks in Sunday after armed militants targeted a churches, synagogues, and a traffic police post in two separate cities. Abdulkhakim Gadzhiyev, who’s one of that region’s representatives in the Duma, promptly blamed Ukraine and NATO. Former Roscosmos chief and incumbent Senator from Zaporozhye region Dmitry Rogozin, however, politely rebuked him shortly thereafter in a Telegram post that reads as follows:
Operating as the Iranian arm of the regime forces, the Fourth Division maintains its own security apparatus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Maher al-Assad, commander of the Fourth Division and brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has issued a directive imposing restrictions on any security or military entity’s ability to arrest members of the Fourth Division, except under official missions sanctioned by the division’s security office or its military police company.
The SDF has not issued a statement regarding the events.
Groups of the National Defense militia (auxiliary forces of the Syrian regime) launched attacks on military positions held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) along the Euphrates River in Deir-ez-Zor’s western and eastern countryside. The SDF retaliated against the sources of fire.
Alors que l’OTAN et ses mandataires néo-nazis coordonnent leurs frappes à longue distance avec des attaques terroristes au plus profond de la Russie (une menace qu’ils ont déjà formulée à plusieurs reprises et qu’ils sont en train de mettre à exécution, comme en témoignent les derniers événements au Daghestan), les États membres orientaux de l’alliance belligérante se préparent à entrer effectivement dans le conflit, même si ce n’est pas de manière officielle. En effet, tout comme les moyens ISR (renseignement, surveillance, reconnaissance) de l’OTAN sont utilisés pour des attaques à longue distance contre l’armée russe à titre «officieux», l’Occident politique espère avoir la possibilité d’utiliser des avions de combat F-16 à partir de bases aériennes en Europe de l’Est, où ils seraient «à l’abri» des contre-attaques russes. En théorie, bien sûr, car personne ne peut vraiment garantir que Moscou tolérera de telles actions. Et pourtant, personne en Europe ne se pose la question la plus évidente : que se passera-t-il lorsque le Kremlin réagira ?
Bon nombre des problèmes les plus urgents du monde restent non résolus, mais certains pays s’engagent toujours dans une confrontation géopolitique avec la Chine et la Russie lors des réunions du G7, soulignant le rôle du G7 dans la confrontation géopolitique américaine.