March, 2022

• 5 March

  Serbia’s Days of Hedging Between the EU and Russia Might Be Over

  

  The European Union has spent much of the past decade divided and impotent, as it flailed its way through a series of seemingly never-ending crises. But Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine last week appears to have reenergized the bloc, leading to the emergence of a newly assertive EU bound together …

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• 4 March

  Thermobaric rockets: Russia’s most fearsome weapon that could destroy a city block in a single shot

  

  As the fighting in Ukraine intensifies in its largest cities, fears are rising that a war of attrition will mean an escalation of violence and the use of ever more deadly weapons. On Saturday, a CNN correspondent captured footage of what appeared to be a TOS-1 heavy flamethrower system being …

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• 4 March

  Ukraine: Russian space chief suggests ISS could crash into US or Europe as a result of sanctions

  

  The head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, has suggested that the International Space Station (ISS) could fall out of orbit and crash into the United States or Europe as a result of sanctions on Russia. The comments came following US president Joe Biden’s announcement of new sanctions that “will …

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• 4 March

  Ukraine war: What part is hackers’ collective Anonymous playing in the war effort against Russia?

  

  They’re mysterious, they’re disruptive, and they’ve picked their side in the war pitting Russia against Ukraine. The hacker collective Anonymous has claimed credit for several cyberattacks that took down Russian government websites and state-backed news outlets in recent days. On Monday, several prominent Russian media services appeared to have been …

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• 4 March

  Hadi Meets with UN, US Envoys and Stresses Need to End Houthi Terrorism

  

  Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi stressed on Tuesday the need to stop the terrorism of Iranian-backed Houthi militias and affirmed his country’s commitment to reaching a sustainable peace solution based on the Gulf initiative, its executive mechanism, outcomes of the national dialogue and relevant UN resolutions, mainly resolution 2216. Hadi’s …

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• 4 March

  Lebanon’s President Tells US his Country is Fighting Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing

  

  Lebanese President Michel Aoun informed Tuesday a visiting US Treasury delegation that Lebanon continues to combat corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing operations. “Lebanese laws are applied firmly and accurately in this field,” Aoun told the delegation during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Baabda. He indicated that Lebanon …

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• 4 March

  Interview with Hans-Jakob Schindler

  

  In a recent interview with EER, Hans-Jakob Schindler gave his take on the evolution of Al Qaeda and its changing role in the current world of Islamist terrorism. According to the analyst, Al Qaeda was, until 2019, a very hierarchically organized centralized organization, where it had its center in Afghanistan, …

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• 4 March

  ISIS could attack Syria’s al-Hol camp: reports

  

  ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Intelligence indicates that ISIS is plotting a full-scale attack on northeast Syria’s al-Hol camp, the Syria-based North Press Agency reported on Wednesday. “Last Monday, a group of ISIS cells were planning for a full-scale attack in the camp, and it is possible that this group is …

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• 4 March

  4 Dead in Rare Syria-Kurdish Clash: Monitor

  

  Clashes in Syria’s northeast between regime troops and forces aligned with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces killed two from each side on Tuesday, a war monitor said. Syria’s Kurds set up a semi-autonomous administration in the country’s northeast in 2013 after government troops withdrew. The SDF, a key US partner …

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• 4 March

  Internal Divisions to Stall ISIS Appointing New Leader

  

  An Egyptian monitor predicted that the ISIS terror group would witness internal divisions after the death of its leader, Abu Ibrahim al Qurashi. The Cairo-based Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Terrorism confirmed that ISIS had always been preoccupied with internal divisions after losing its leaders. The group hopes to reorganize and …

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