June, 2022

• 16 June

  Israel puts Syria on notice over Iran

  

  According to foreign reports, Israel is increasing its offensive activities in Syria against Iran-related targets. With negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program stalled and the world’s attention focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israel appears to be intensifying its military activity in Syria. According to foreign news reports, Israel has …

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• 16 June

  PKK threatens journalists, lawmakers in Kurdistan as regional tensions rise

  

  The media and a member of the Kurdistan Region parliament have spoken out against threats and pressure from the PKK, as tensions and drone attacks increase. As drones and rockets target both Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters and Turkish military deployed to Iraq, an attack by PKK supporters on a …

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• 16 June

  Iran Opens Ababil-2 Drone Factory in Tajikistan: Reasons and Implications

  

  On May 16–17, with much of the attention in Eurasia still fixated on the Russian-Ukrainian war, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, paid a visit to Tajikistan, where he met with President Emomali Rahmon and senior military officials. In the most important event …

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• 16 June

  Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis resume direct talks, sources say

  Warring parties Saudi Arabia and the Yemen’s Houthi movement have resumed direct talks to discuss security along the kingdom’s border and future relations under any peace deal with Yemen, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The so far sporadic negotiations between the two sides resumed last month …

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• 16 June

  France announces capture of senior Islamic State figure in Mali

  France announced on Wednesday that soldiers from its operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa had captured Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior Islamic State figure in Mali. The French Armed Forces ministry said Albakaye was captured by Operation Barkhane forces between the night of June 11 …

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• 15 June

  Is Russia inching towards victory in Ukraine’s Donbas region?

  

  Al Jazeera’s Alex Gatopoulos examines whether new tactics and objectives are giving Russia an advantage in the Ukraine war. In the battle for the Donbas, the fight over Severodonetsk has entered a crucial stage. Ukrainian units are locked in a desperate struggle with Russian infantry and armour intent on taking …

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• 15 June

  Biden’s New Policy Funds China’s Military, Supports Slavery, Achieves Nothing

  

  Previously, U.S. policy was that Americans were forbidden to invest in companies included in a “blacklist” of Chinese companies directly involved in China’s military, and in producing applications used by the Communist regime to oppress its own people and threaten its neighbors. The new “answers” amount to a wholesale abandonment …

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• 15 June

  Ukrainalaiset joutuivat kärsijöiksi Suomen byrokratiassa

  

  Ukrainasta sotaa Suomeen paenneille pitää saada henkilötunnukset pikavauhtia. Tuhannet sotaa Suomeen jo kuukausia sitten paenneet ukrainalaiset eivät ole saaneet henkilötunnusta. Sen puuttuminen vaikeuttaa esimerkiksi työntekoa ja asunnon saamista. Tilanne on kohtuuton. Ihmisiä pompotellaan tiskiltä toiselle, mikä on tavallisellekin suomalaiselle uuvuttavaa, saati ukrainalaiselle, joka ei osaa viranomaisten käyttämää kieltä. Euroopan unioni …

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• 15 June

  Jerzy Haszczyński: Unijny przekaz dla Kijowa

  

  Zmniejszające się gwałtownie zainteresowanie wojną znajdzie prędzej czy później odzwierciedlenie w działaniach europejskich polityków. Niestety, raczej prędzej. Gdy widzę w gazecie nazwisko kończące się na »ić«, to przewracam stronę” – tak po miesiącach wojny jugosłowiańskiej powiedział mój kolega, też dziennikarz, również interesujący się sprawami zagranicznymi. Nie jest cynikiem, to człowiek …

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• 15 June

  Ukraine Increasingly More Desperate, Calls For Modern Weapons

  

  Ukrainian forces are suffering painful losses in the fight against Russian troops in the east of the country as they await the delivery of promised weapons from Western countries, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on June 14 in a late-night address. Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons now, he said, adding there …

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