June, 2021

• 22 June

  US Defense Department approves replenishment of Israel’s Iron Dome system

  

  The Secretary of Defense announced during a Thursday congressional session that the request for military assistance has been approved and the US will transfer the requested amount over to Israel. The United States has pledged to replenish and reinforce Israel’s Iron Dome system following the most recent escalation between Israel …

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• 22 June

  Is the ‘hardliner’ talking point about Iran’s Raisi a whitewash?

  

  Is the term accurately a descriptive for Iran’s far-right extremist theocratic leaders, or is it used to whitewash and excuse Iran’s politics? A global narrative present in major media outlets uses the term “hardliner” to describe Ebrahim Raisi, the winner of Iran’s presidential election on Saturday. The term “hardliner” was …

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• 22 June

  40 years since Operation Opera, attack against Iran ‘would be different’

  

  Unlike the raid on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear project, Iran’s nuclear sites are spread across the country, some deep underground or in mountains, surrounded by air defense systems. Forty years after Israel destroyed Iraq’s fledgling nuclear program, one of the pilots who took part in Operation Opera warned that an attack …

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• 22 June

  Turkey is radicalizing extremists to attack Kurdish women

  

  Women have become key targets of Turkey’s extremist government in recent years, videos increasingly showing violence against women in the streets of cities, including women being beaten by men. Photos show Deniz Poyraz smiling and happy. But for Turkey’s far-right, she was a threat, a young woman activist who was …

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• 22 June

  Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has emergency shutdown – state TV

  

  Iran has witnessed dozens of mysterious fires and explosions across the country since mid-2020, many near nuclear facilities. Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant underwent an emergency shutdown, Iranian media reported on Sunday.The Iranian Atomic Energy Organization reported that a technical defect in the power plant led to the plant being …

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• 22 June

  Taliban Enter Key Cities in Afghanistan’s North After Swift Offensive

  

  The setbacks come at a harrowing moment for Afghanistan, just as American and international troops are set to leave the country in coming weeks. The Taliban entered two provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan Sunday, local officials said, the culmination of an insurgent offensive that has overrun dozens of rural districts …

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• 22 June

  NATO exit risks Afghan ‘security vacuum’: Abdullah Abdullah

  

  The Afghanistan government’s top peace negotiator has voiced concern that the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan could cause a “security vacuum, an increased level of fighting and perhaps a slower pace of negotiations,” saying the solution “has to be through negotiations, not through battle.” “The Taliban has unfortunately increased …

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• 22 June

  Taliban Advances Test Afghan Forces’ Morale as the U.S. Leaves

  

  Every few hours this weekend, the Taliban released videos of triumphant insurgents inspecting yet another Afghan district headquarters that had been lost in battle by government forces or surrendered without a fight. Some of these districts, a unit equivalent to American counties, are too remote or sparsely populated to warrant …

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• 22 June

  Ousted Israel PM plotted with Saudi’s MBS to undermine Jordan king

  New details have emerged about the alleged plot to overthrow Jordan’s King Abdullah, indicating that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played a starring role along with senior officials within the Trump administration, prominent Jordanians, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Details of the role played by Netanyahu, who …

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• 21 June

  Turkish troops to remain at Kabul airport after NATO withdrawal

  

  The US president has committed to granting Turkey’s requests for support to maintaining troops at Kabul International. US President Joe Biden agreed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s requests to support Ankara’s forces as they retain control of Kabul International Airport after American and NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan this …

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