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June, 2022

  • 16 June

    Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service continues anti-ISIS operations in coordination with Kurdish Asayish

    “The coordination between the CTS and KRG CT entities is by far the most detailed of all Iraqi Federal coordination with KRG.” Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Services (CTS) arrested four ISIS members in coordination with the Kurdistan Region’s Asayish in Sulaimani province on June 8. In a tweet on Monday, the …

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  • 16 June

    Syrians returning from Al-Hol camp stigmatised over IS ties

    Noura al-Khalif married an Islamic State group supporter and then wound up without her husband in a Syrian camp viewed by many as the last surviving pocket of the “caliphate”. The 31-year-old woman has been back in her hometown outside the northern city of Raqa for three years but she …

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  • 16 June

    Crypto-Carnage Hits Every Asset Class Tied to Crypto

    It wasn’t just cryptocurrencies that crashed Monday, it was crypto exchanges, crypto mining stocks, publicly-traded companies holding large investments in crypto, and crypto ETFs. By the time the closing bell rang, ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF had tanked by 20.22 percent on the day, bringing its year-to-date loss to 50.4 percent. …

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  • 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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