May, 2022

• 20 May

  Bosnia’s Dangerous Path

  

  How U.S. Policy Is Making a Bad Situation Worse In the Balkans, and especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, images from Ukraine of besieged cities, massacres, and mass displacement are re-traumatizing a society that has never been allowed to heal after the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. …

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• 20 May

  The Russian Military’s People Problem

  

  It’s Hard for Moscow to Win While Mistreating Its Soldiers It’s Hard for Moscow to Win While Mistreating Its Soldiers Six days before the invasion of Ukraine, a small group of Russian soldiers huddled together in their tents in Belarus. One of them had covertly acquired a smartphone—barred by the …

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• 20 May

  300,000 Metric Tons of Wheat Bought by Egypt Stuck in Ukraine

  

  Some 300,000 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat that had been scheduled for delivery to Egypt in February and March has not yet been shipped, Reuters first reported. One of the cargo shipments remains stuck in Ukraine’s Chornomorsk Port on the north-western shore of the Black Sea, and four have not …

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• 20 May

  Report: US To Participate in Israeli Simulation of Military Strike on Iran

  

  The US military will participate in a major Israeli drill later this month simulating an airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel’s Channel 13 reported on Tuesday. The drill, part of an exercise dubbed “Chariots of Fire,” will include the air-to-air refueling of Israeli fighter jets by US Air Force tanker …

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• 20 May

  694 Ukrainian Soldiers Surrender at Azovstal Steel Plant

  Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian officials confirmed that negotiations on a solution to the conflict have been suspended as the process is mired in stalemate. On Wednesday, Russia informed that 694 Ukrainian soldiers blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol have surrendered over the past 24 hours, including 29 wounded. “A …

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• 20 May

  Libya Goes Through a New Episode of Intense Struggle for Power

  On Sunday, clashes broke out between armed groups that involved indiscriminate fire and use of heavy weapons in Janzour area, a densely populated neighborhood in Tripoli. Abdulhamid Dbeiba’s Government of National Unity (GNU) assessed that the serious clashes between militias on Tuesday, caused by the entry of parallel Prime Minister …

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• 20 May

  Venezuela Thanks Mexico for Advocating for an Inclusive Summit

  The Mexican president will not attend the “Summit of the Americas” if the United States does not invite Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. On Wednesday, Venezuela thanked Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) for his stance regarding the Summit of the Americas to be held in Los Angeles. “Venezuela salutes …

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• 20 May

  Iran reveals identities of two detained French ‘spies’

  

  State media aired what it said was Intelligence Ministry footage of the arrest of two French citizens, accused of attempting to “instigate chaos” by inciting Iran’s protesting teachers. One week after a statement on the arrest of two Europeans, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry revealed the identities, nationality and details of what …

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• 20 May

  Israel’s army simulates attack on Iran

  

  The warning by Defense Minister Benny Gantz over Iran manufacturing and installing 1,000 advanced centrifuges, and the IDF drill simulating an attack on Iran, express growing concerns in Jerusalem over the reported failure of the Vienna talks. Iran is attempting to complete the manufacture and installation of 1,000 IR6 advanced …

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• 20 May

  Turkish-backed forces meet with rival HTS in north Syria

  

  Extensive meetings were held in the past days between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which controls Idlib, and the Levant Front, one of the most prominent and strongest groups of the Syrian National Army, in a bid to reach a compromise between the two sides. Commanders from one of the leading factions …

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