August, 2024

• 2 August

  Life of defiance: Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas political boss, killed

  

  For many, Haniyeh will remain a symbol of resistance in the face of Israeli occupation. Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran at the age of 62 in what the Palestinian group has described as “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence”. Haniyeh, who briefly served as …

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• 2 August

  Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran

  Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran where he had been attending the president’s inauguration. Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that runs the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, which blamed Israel for his killing. Haniyeh and one …

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• 2 August

  How BBC Open Source Journalists Investigate, Analyze, and Verify Information from Gaza

  

  The news headlines that emerged after the October 7 attack — when Hamas and a coalition of other militant groups launched a coordinated armed incursion into Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds — described it as a “surprise” attack.

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• 2 August

  After Eliminating Ismail Haniyeh, Israel’s Hunt for Hamas Leaders Continues

  

  Latest Developments The strike in Tehran on July 31 that killed Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s most senior political leader, brings to four the number of Hamas’s top leaders eliminated since the October 7 atrocities in southern Israel. Prior to the killing of Haniyeh — who was in Tehran for the inauguration …

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• 2 August

  Turkey Threatens to Invade Israel

  

  Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory posture in the developing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. At a party conference in his hometown Rize, Erdogan …

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• 1 August

  Did Westerners, Ukrainians, And Islamists Help Tuareg Rebels Ambush Wagner In Mali?

  

  The Tuareg Conflict is on pace to become another proxy war between Russia and the West. Speculation is swirling in the days after Tuareg rebels ambushed Wagner in Mali, which readers can learn more about here and here, to suggest that they had the support of Westerners, Ukrainians, and Islamists. …

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• 1 August

  American Officials Told Politico Their Plan For Waging Hybrid War Against Wagner In Africa

  

  While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information warfare alone as proven by its failures in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan, which are …

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• 1 August

  Russia’s Newfound Appeal To African Countries Is Actually Quite Easy To Explain

  

  Africa will always support the side that’s fighting to liberate its countries from the chains of neo-colonialism and structural racism, which means that the West never had a chance from the get-go when it came to competing with Russia for hearts and minds. Observers across the world are bewildered by …

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• 1 August

  L’OTAN élaborera une nouvelle stratégie pour la Russie

  

  La nouvelle stratégie unira tous les alliés dans une interaction plus étroite contre Moscou, a déclaré le secrétaire d’État adjoint des États-Unis, James O’Brien. L’OTAN va développer une nouvelle stratégie pour la Russie, a déclaré James O’Brien, secrétaire d’État adjoint US pour l’Europe et l’Eurasie, lors d’une audition au Sénat. …

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• 1 August

  Un nationalisme ukrainien exacerbé et sans fondement historique ?

  

  En 1982, dans son livre «La politique de la France à l’égard de l’Ukraine, mars 1917-1918», Wolodymyr Kosyk affirme : «Que [le peuple ukrainien] ait porté différents noms au cours de son histoire ne change rien au fait qu’il s’agit toujours du même peuple, ayant gardé les mêmes caractéristiques ethniques, …

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