December, 2022

• 5 December

  Conflict Risk Alerts

  Yemen Back-channel talks between Huthis and Saudi Arabia signalled deal could be reached outside stalled UN process, while Huthis attacked energy infrastructure, raising risks of front-line and regional escalation. Huthis and Riyadh intensified back-channel negotiations away from UN process. As UN efforts to resurrect truce remained deadlocked, Huthis and Saudi …

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• 5 December

  Terrorist Designation of AQIS and TTP Leaders

  The United States is committed to using its full set of counterterrorism tools to counter the threat posed by terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, including al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as part of our relentless efforts to ensure that terrorists do not use Afghanistan …

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• 5 December

  Islamic State names new leader after Quraishi blew himself up when surrounded -sources

  The Islamic State (IS) militant group has appointed a previously unknown figure as its head after its leader blew himself up in October while being besieged by former anti-government rebels in southern Syria, those involved in the clash told Reuters. IS selected Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi as its new leader, …

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• 5 December

  US hits Hezbollah accountants with terrorism sanctions

  The Biden administration on Thursday slapped terrorism sanctions on two accountants and two companies in Lebanon for providing the militant group Hezbollah with financial services. The Treasury Department announced it would also impose sanctions on a third person for assisting Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated “foreign terrorist organization,” with weapons acquisitions. The …

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• 3 December

  Belgium’s World Cup Football Riots: A Symbol of the Failure of the Migration Policy

  

  In Brussels, Moroccans outnumber people of Belgian origin in the under-18 age group; many schools are attended exclusively by children of non-European origin. In those public schools where parents have the choice of religion classes, Islam is now followed by a majority of pupils. Whether one describes these changes as …

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• 3 December

  Iran claims dozens of foreign spy organizations behind protests

  

  The commander of Iran’s Basij Organization says that the United States is engaged in a hybrid war against the country. After two and a half months of protests leading to hundreds of deaths, including an especially high number of teenagers, Iran has continued to claim that foreign hands are behind …

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• 3 December

  Iran’s oil ministry opens offices in Baghdad, Basra, Kurdistan

  

  Iran is opening offices for its oil ministries in several Iraqi cities to expand cooperation in oil, gas and other energy sectors. The Iranian oil ministry has opened an office in Baghdad to expand the energy cooperation between the two countries. “The Baghdad office will manage all other offices that …

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• 3 December

  Iran’s Raisi downplays protests in visit to flashpoint Kurdish city 

  

  President Ebrahim Raisi made no reference to the killings of the protesters in the government crackdown and once again blamed the unrest on outside enemies. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi described the public protests that have gripped his country since mid-September as “yet another disgraceful miscalculation” by “the enemy.” Raisi made his comments in …

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• 3 December

  Syrians, Afghans, North Koreans And Iranians Could Soon Be Fighting For Russia In Ukraine – OpEd

  

   In order to fill the depleted ranks of the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, Moscow is making it easier for persons with dual citizenship to be drafted and serve and for those with citizenship in other countries to volunteer to serve in the Russian armed forces. As a result, Anatoly …

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• 3 December

  Today’s Iran Protests Have Echoes Of 1979 Revolution – OpEd

  

  Many Iranians are characterizing what is occurring across the country as a revolution, not just scattered protests and demonstrations as the authorities insist. While revolutions have taken place in less than a month in some countries, if Iran’s history offers any guidance, a revolution there is often preceded by many …

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