May, 2021

• 11 May

  300 Injured in Jerusalem Day Riots

  Violence broke out again on Monday at Al-Aqsa Mosque as Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police squared off on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem, sending at least 206 people – 205 Palestinian protesters and one Israeli police officer – to local hospitals for treatment. An additional 100 demonstrators and eight …

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• 9 May

  IntelBrief: United to Fight Terrorism? Reviewing the UN’s Global Counterterrorism Strategy

  

  Counterterrorism experts and diplomats at the United Nations are currently negotiating the biennial review of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Although the resolution lacks the force of law, it does provide a framework for the UN and shapes the operations of nearly forty different UN funds, agencies, and programs. This year, …

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• 9 May

  10 years after death, Bin Laden still mobilises jihadists

  

  A decade after he was hunted down and killed in Pakistan by US special forces, Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden retains the capacity to mobilise extremists even in a polarised jihadist scene that has radically changed in the last years. Even though Bin Laden’s body was buried in the Arabian …

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• 9 May

  Afghanistan to Discuss Fate of Foreign IS Prisoners with Their Countries

  

  The Afghan government said it plans to begin talks with 14 countries to discuss what to do with hundreds of their citizens who have been captured while fighting alongside the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP). Ahmad Zia Seraj, the head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said …

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• 9 May

  IntelBrief: Challenges to the Forward Momentum of U.S.-Iran Diplomacy

  

  U.S.-Iran nuclear talks in Vienna are making progress, but remain threatened by Israel-Iran conflict, Iranian naval challenges in the Persian Gulf, and political infighting in Tehran. Israeli officials insist to the Biden administration that they will continue to act unilaterally against Iranian nuclear facilities, if necessary. A backlash due to …

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• 9 May

  IntelBrief: Water Wars: Tensions between Ethiopia and its Neighbors Persist Over Dam Project

  

  Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have regional security and development implications. Sudan’s military incursion into al-Fashaga took advantage of Ethiopia’s preoccupation with combating an ongoing rebellion in the Tigray region. Negotiation efforts over the dam are underway, and broader military conflict between Egypt, Sudan, …

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• 9 May

  Washington Is Playing A Losing Game With China – Analysis

  America’s latest policies toward China will prove self-defeating. US–China relations now exemplify Freeman’s third law of strategic dynamics: for every hostile act there is a more hostile reaction. Washington would be easy to spot in a game of chess. It’s the player with no plan beyond an aggressive opening. That …

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• 9 May

  Albania: Edi Rama Maintains An Iron Grip On Power – OpEd

  Albania’s socialist party under the leadership of Edi Rama has installed a one – party state regime that is harming, violating the national constitution and taking the country into an abysmal state of denial; that is guided by western diplomatic channels that are boosting Rama’s internal power politics, while his …

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• 9 May

  Nord Stream 2: To Gain Or To Refrain? – OpEd

  Why Germany Refuses to Bend under Sanctions Pressure The chances of the sanctions war around Nord Stream 2 to rage on after the construction of the pipeline is finally over seem to be high. That said, we have to admit, with regret or with joy, that it will be completed, …

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• 9 May

  Iran: The New Home Of Al-Qaeda? – OpEd

  The latest from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), according to Fox News, is that “al-Qaeda leaders are being harbored inside Iran.” This revelation comes as no surprise to Liberty Nation. The malevolent machinations of the Tehran regime have been front and center in LN reports for the last few months. …

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