August, 2014

• 8 August

  Iraqi extremists take control of largest dam

  Sunni extremists from the Islamic State group today seized Iraq’s largest dam, placing them in control of enormous power and water resources and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad. After a week of attempts, the armed gunmen successfully stormed the Mosul Dam and forced Kurdish forces …

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• 7 August

  Tunisian President asks Western countries for military assistance

  Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki asked western countries to increase military assistance to Tunisia in an address to an audience at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, Wednesday.

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• 7 August

  Turkish FM discusses aid to Gaza with Egypt and Israel

  Turkey is in talks with Israel and Egypt about establishing an air corridor to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza and evacuate potentially thousands of injured Palestinians for treatment in Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Aug. 6.

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• 7 August

  Turkey suspends embassy in Tripoli due to conflict escalation

  Turkey has suspended work at its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Aug. 6, two weeks after his ministry advised Turks to leave the North African country due to worsening lawlessness. 

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• 7 August

  Ukrainian parliament rejects Yatsenyuk’s resignation

  Ukraine’s legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, has turned down the resignation Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk submitted earlier in July. Yatsenyuk announced he was stepping down last week after the governing coalition collapsed due to the decision of two of its parties, UDAR and Svoboda, to quit. 

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• 7 August

  US to provide 19M USD aid for Ukraine military operation in east

  The US intends to provide USD 19M to bolster Ukraine’s military operation, which pro-Kiev authorities conduct against militias in the southeastern regions of the country. Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby announced the Obama administration has asked Congress for authority to spend USD 19M next year to train and equip Ukrainian National Guard forces

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• 7 August

  Russia to apply retaliatory measures against western sanctions

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he has ordered the government to think over retaliatory measures against western sanctions, local media reported. “Political tools of pressure on the economy are unacceptable and contradict all norms and rules. The Russian government has already proposed a number of

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• 7 August

  Over 60 extremists killed by Iraqi airstrike in Mosul

  Iraq’s state TV says a government airstrike in the militant—held northern city of Mosul killed 60 fighters from the extremists Islamic State group. The TV says the strike at dawn on Wednesday targeted a prison in downtown Mosul used by the Islamic State as a religious court and detention facility.

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• 7 August

  Egypt negotiates with Libya the evacuation of citizens

  Egypt is engaged in intense communication with officials in Tunisia in order to evacuate citizens stuck at the border area between Libya and Tunisia All Egyptians currently trapped in the border area between Libya and Tunisia will be returned home, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said after ending his trip to …

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• 4 August

  Over 19 killed in Damascus by airstrikes of Syrian warplanes

  Nineteen people were killed on Sunday and many injured in airstrikes by Syrian warplanes on the town of Kafr Batna, in the governorate of Rif Dimashq (the Countryside of Damascus), southern Syria, also a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Two similar strikes targeted the city …

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