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.