August, 2022

• 3 August

  US to deliver more HIMARS ammunition to Ukraine

  

  The government will commit $550m for the 17th presidential drawdown of equipment from DoD stocks. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced additional security assistance, worth over $550m, to arm Ukrainians with key defence capabilities. The latest aid package is the 17th presidential drawdown of equipment from DoD stocks …

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• 3 August

  The Folly of Pakistan’s China Gamble

  

  Why Relying on Beijing Is a Bad Bet In July, a popular uprising in Sri Lanka toppled the government and sent its president scurrying into exile. The revolt had been brewing for months in the wake of the country’s economic implosion, but it still caught observers off-guard. In surreal scenes, …

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• 3 August

  Zawahri’s Kabul death raises questions about al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan after US left it to the Taliban

  

  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri’s death in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is raising questions about whether the country is being used as a base of operations for the terrorist group. “What unnerves me is that Al Zawahri felt comfortable enough being out in the open in the Kabul area after the …

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• 3 August

  Ukrainian Grain Shipments Resume From Odesa

  

  Grain shipments from Ukraine’s port of Odesa resumed Monday, the first since Russia invaded its neighbor in late February. The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni was the first to leave port, carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn bound for Lebanon. In a statement, Turkey’s defense ministry said other unspecified …

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• 3 August

  Afghanistan-Pakistan: HGB Violent Reassertion – Analysis

  

  On July 28, 2022, Security Forces (SFs) killed two Hafiz Gul Bahadur (HGB) militants in the Manzer Khel area of the North Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction is a breakaway of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. On July 23, 2022, three HGB militants were killed in …

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• 3 August

  Arm Ukraine Now: Game Changers In Russo-Ukrainian War

  

  On July 20, Sergey Lavrov, minister of foreign affairs for the Russian Federation, declared that Moscow had new objectives in Ukraine, as it now wants to expand its gains beyond the borders of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” by capturing Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Lavrov underlined Western …

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• 3 August

  Killing of al-Qaida leader is long-sought ‘justice’

  

  President Joe Biden announced Monday that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, an operation he said delivered justice and hopefully “one more measure of closure” to families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The president said …

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• 3 August

  Biden Confirms US Killed al-Qaida Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

  President Joe Biden said Monday that a U.S. missile strike over the weekend has killed the leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. For the past decade, al-Zawahiri headed al-Qaida, the Islamist terror group that spawned franchises around the world after the stunning attacks on …

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• 2 August

  China on the Offensive

  

  How the Ukraine War Has Changed Beijing’s Strategy In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Beijing was on the back foot. For weeks after Russian troops crossed Ukraine’s border, China’s messaging was stilted and confused as Chinese diplomats, propagandists, and foreign ministry spokespeople themselves tried to figure out …

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• 2 August

  At Least 10 Killed in Al-Shabab Attack of Town on Somalia-Ethiopia Border

  

  At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured Friday when al-Shabab extremists attacked a town that sits on the Somali side of the border with Ethiopia, according to witnesses and officials. “The militants launched a surprise dawn attack on the town of Aato in the Bakol …

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