August 9, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Latest Developments The Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, reportedly conveyed a personal message from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Iranian leaders while he was in Tehran on August 5. The message urged the regime to refrain from taking military action against Israel. According to an unnamed Iranian …
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August 9, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient, Pakistan, South East Asia
Latest Developments The United States charged a Pakistani national with a thwarted Iran-backed plot to assassinate American government officials, the U.S. Justice Department disclosed on August 6. The defendant, 46-year-old Asif Merchant, had hired purported hitmen who were actually undercover U.S. law enforcement officers, according to the U.S. complaint unsealed …
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August 9, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Latest Developments Five U.S. service members and two U.S. contractors were injured in a rocket attack by Iran-backed terrorists in Iraq on August 5, according to U.S. defense officials who briefed The Washington Post. Two Iraqi security officials told Reuters that the injuries were caused by two rockets that fell …
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August 9, 2024 Eurasia
Un bon moyen pour gagner 500 $ par jour À mesure que le concept de crypto-monnaie devient progressivement courant, de nombreuses personnes ont commencé à se lancer dans l’industrie minière pour augmenter leurs revenus. L’avantage du minage est que vous pouvez le faire comme une activité secondaire tout en continuant …
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August 6, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Iranian armed forces-run Defa Press published a list of potential civilian and military targets in Israel on August 5, which likely aims to decrease Israel’s ability to effectively defend against an Iranian attack by causing Israel to air- and missile-defense assets and creating panic among civilians.[1] The list includes Israeli …
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August 6, 2024 Africa, Eurasia
Mali has cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine after Kyiv suggested a tip off from its intelligence services had allowed rebels to massacre a force of government troops and Russian mercenaries. Mali’s northern Tuareg rebels claim they killed at least 84 mercenaries from the Kremlin-backed Wagner group along with 47 Malian …
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August 6, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
During the past week, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 43 attacks on military and civilian targets in northern Israel, including communities attacked for the first time since the beginning of the war. A civilian was killed; an officer and an IDF soldier were injured.Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked Hezbollah targets and …
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August 6, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
When U.S. Patriots shot down an Iranian missile over Erbil on April 15, Kurds wondered why such defenses weren’t activated when they were attacked. Late in the night of April 13, Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, was shaken by the sound of a Patriot missile battery shooting down …
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August 6, 2024 Eurasia
“The Commission finds that DoD’s business practices, byzantine research and development and procurement systems, reliance on decades-old military hardware, and culture of risk avoidance reflect an era of uncontested military dominance… Such methods are not suited to today’s strategic environment…. The U.S. public are largely unaware of the dangers the …
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August 6, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The surprising and evolving intersections between the Jewish state and Islamic institutions. Introduction The term “Israeli Islam” may sound like an oxymoron, but Islam is present in Israeli society—and inside the Israeli state. Just under one-fifth of Israelis are registered by the state as Muslims; Muhammad has been the most …
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