This Week in War : 4th week, July 2018

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Ahed Tamimi in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank July 29, 2018. Abbas described Tamimi as "a model of peaceful civil resistance ..., proving to the world that our Palestinian people will stand firm and constant on their land, no matter what the sacrifice." He made the statement published by the official news agency Wafa after he met Tamimi and her mother. PPO/Handout via REUTERS

4th week, July 2018.

This Week in War:  A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week.  

• Ecuadorian authorities are about to expel WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from their London embassy.

• Palestine will preside over Group of 77 which promotes economic interests and represents 80 percent of world population.

•  Myanmar police planted 'secret’ papers that on the two jailed Reuters reporters reporting on the Rohingya massacres by the Myanmar government.

• Former Trump aide, Steve Bannon, sets up group to undermine EU.

• Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina got as far as meeting with U.S. Treasury.

• Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi freed from jail after serving 8 months for slapping and hitting an Israeli soldier after they shot her 15-year-old cousin the the face.

• In the US, a white man who shot black father in front of his kids over parking spot won’t face charges.

• Pakistan Election Updates: Pakistan will see a rare democratic transition of power as they hold their 2018 elections.

• Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer says Trump ‘knew of Russian lawyer meeting’.

• There is no evidence that Islamic State is responsible for the Toronto attack.

• Yemen's rebels attack Abu Dhabi airport using a drone.

• Cameroon soldiers carry out a cold-blooded execution of 2 women, a toddler, and little girl. The US heavily financially aids the Cameroon army.

• Putin tells Trump to ‘be his guest in Moscow”.

• Trump 'open' to Moscow visit after Putin extends invite.

• Two of Germany’s largest public broadcasters were targeted by Russian hackers.

• Despite the ongoing war, Russia calls for Syria refugees to return to their homeland.

• US child migrants: Over 700 children have not been reunited with their families.

• Israeli Defense Minister calls for West Bank settlement expansion.

This Week in War : 3rd week, July 2018

Eritreans wait to welcome their families at Asmara International Airport aboard the Ethiopian Airlines ET314 flight in Asmara, Eritrea. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

3rd week, July 2018.

This Week in War:  A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week.  

• Nicaraguan militia launches an “all-night assault” on university students protesting President Daniel Ortega.

• South Korea explores business opportunities in the North.

• Israel has passed a law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, described by the Arab population as verging on apartheid. 

• Trump and Putin meet in the Helsinki’s Hall of Mirrors. There will be no official record of the exchange.

• Accounts of War in Syria - Documentary : Four different accounts of the Syria’s historic battle for Aleppo in 2016.

• Nigerian police say eight Boko Haram suspects confess to 2014 Chibok abduction.

• Maria Butina has been arrested and charged this week for actively being a Russian spy in the US. She attempted to infiltrate the NRA.

• US President Donald Trump meets with Putin and denouncing the 'stupidity' of U.S. policy on Russia.

• The Cheat Sheet: This week's humanitarian trends and developments from around the world. 

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns Trump trade war could cost global economy $430bn.

• Scores of displaced Syrians were turned back at Israeli borders.

• Who Is America? : New comedy show sheds light on how US Republicans endorse arming toddlers with firearms.

• Short Film - Born in ’48 : Five women, Israeli and Palestinian, born in the same year but irreconcilably divided by history and events.

• Donald Trump calls the EU a ‘foe’.

• Egypt passes bill shielding military officers from prosecution.

• Award-winning photojournalist, Nizar Saied is confirmed dead years after his arrest by Syrian forces.

• Israel blocks fuel shipment to Gaza.

• Eritrean embassy reopens in Ethiopia after an end to a 20-year war.

• The new Standing Rock? U.S. and Canada prepare to fight against the TransMountain Tar Sands Pipeline Project.

• Ecuador is melting back into the arms of the US and international financial interests. 

• Russia has claimed the summit between Trump and Putin as a win for Russia.

• BBC Video : Check out the inside the Syrian rebels' tunnel network.

• The Chinese community in Egypt has grown considerably as China and Egypt strengthen their commercial relationship.

• Israel passes law limiting Palestinians access to judicial courts in an effort to a “Judaization” of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

This Week in War: 2nd Week, July 2018

Demonstrators protesting against the visit of President Donald Trump hold banners, in Windsor. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

2nd week, July 2018.

This Week in War:  A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week.  

• Fighting intensifies in Nicaragua amid cries for the President Daniel Ortega’s resignation. 

• Update - Palestine Protest: Israeli forces kill 15-year-old Palestinian.

• Trump’s White House close to refusing interview with Mueller's Russia investigation. 

• Boris Johnson quits as UK foreign secretary amid Brexit crisis.

• Rohingya Crisis: Torn by massacres and violence, Rohingya families connect through letters.

• NATO Summit: Trump’s heated exchange with the NATO chief ahead of the summit.

• With knowledge war crimes are being committed, Saudi Arabia issued a royal pardon for all soldiers deployed in Yemen.

• Syria’s President Assad (with aid from Russia) is poised to snuff out 'cradle' of revolt. in the place it first began more than 7 years ago.

• Mueller of the US Special Counsel indicts 12 Russian spies in 2016 election hacking.

• Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, explained.

• How Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in the cave. 

• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Democratic Socialist ex President of Brazil, is being held as political prisoner. He has been running his presidential campaign from prison and is the most popular politician leading the national polls.

• Cartoonsplained : Brett Kavanaugh and the United States Supreme Court’s drastic shift to the right.

• Ethiopia and Eritrea declare war 'has come to an end’, officially ending decades of diplomatic and armed strife. 

• Trump says he can't say if Putin is friend or foe. Meeting Vladmir Putin seems to be the easiest part of the Donald Trump’s European tour. 

• Liu Xia: Nobel laureate's widow allowed to leave China for Germany after 8 years of living under house arrest for being married to Liu Xiaobo, a political prisoner. She committed no crime.

• Trump administration to miss deadline to reunite all children under 5 with families.

• Study: Over 10,000 Indigenous Colombians rights violated.

• Maryam Nawaz have been dubbed as the new Benazir Bhutto. Meet the woman who's challenging Pakistan's powerful army.

• Explained : UK’s Brexit crisis.

• Ireland becomes the world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels.

• Over 230 civilians killed and 120 women and girls raped by South Sudan government troops and aligned forces.

• The perils of being a Yemeni journalist : Exile, torture, death.

• Former Putin adviser has secret investment in US energy firm--praised by Trump.

• Trump’s denaturalization task force matters : The fear of losing citizenship will have a chilling effect on America’s immigrants.

• Israel launches air attacks on 3 Syrian military facilities.

• US airstrike kills 54 civilians in Deir ez-Zor province, Syria.

•  Algeria halts expelling refugees into the Sahara Desert amid outcries.

This Week in War: 1st Week, July 2018

An Internally displaced girl from Deraa province carries a stuffed toy and holds the hand of child near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Quneitra, Syria. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

1st week, July 2018.

This Week in War:  A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week.  

• Trump has been repeatedly suggesting a Venezuela invasion.

• Geopolitics: Does Israel have a stake in keeping Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in power? 

• Mexico has elected their most left-wing President in decades.

• The US Army are quietly discharging immigrant recruits.

• Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged his armed forces to be on guard following reports that US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of invading Venezuela.

• Some of the contractors financially benefitting from housing the migrant children have particularly strong ties to the Trump administration.

• 2 British citizens have been poisoned with the same Russian nerve agent used on a former double agent and his daughter.

• India’s Slumdog Press : The child-run newspaper reporting on the ongoing injustices endured by India's 2 million street children.

• Physicians say the Rohingya scars 'highly consistent' with Myanmar atrocity reports.

• New York's Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has used her sudden fame as a platform to endorse and promote fellow insurgents across the country in their primary challenges against Democratic incumbents. 

• The Last Nomads of Morocco : A sedentary lifestyle in return for an education?

• The Mother Teresa charity accused of selling babies in India.

• Therese Okoumou climbed the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in a Fourth of July protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

• Iran threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz over US oil sanctions.

• Syrian War - Update: Warplanes pound southern Syria; rebels to resume peace talks.

• Top ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's son 'killed in Syria’.

• Saudi Kingdom Purge - Update: 8 months later, Princes and top officials remain jailed in maximum-security prisons.

• USA’s EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt, has been forced to resigned amid mounting ethic scandals.

• Japan executes doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara who was responsible for 1995 sarin gas attack.

• A Michigan judge rules kids don't have a fundamental right to literacy.

• Evidence may be ‘shoddy’ in Kim Jong-un half-brother murder trial.

• Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, hires attorney and former President Bill Clinton’s public relations veteran.

• Top officials involved in ‘non-stop cycle of torture’ in Ethiopia’s most notorious prison.

• U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to North Korea.

• The Cheat Sheet : A round up of humanitarian trends and developments from around the globe.

• Niger president says US troops should not be fighting in Niger.