This Week in War : 5th week, August 2018

Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi movement perform the traditional Baraa dance as they take part in a ceremony marking the al-Ghadeer day in Saada, Yemen. The celebration marks a day Shi'ites believe Prophet Muhammad nominated his cousin, Imam Ali, to be his successor. REUTERS/Naif Rahma

5th week, August 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.

• Evidence grows that the Israeli government meddled in UK politics.

• U.N. fears chemical weapons in Syria battle with '10,000 terrorists’.

• War and Conflict : The Rohingya story.  

• For the first time, the UN explicitly called for Myanmar officials to face genocide charges over their deadly campaign against the Rohingya people. 

• The former Nobel peace prize winner, who was once heralded as the face of a new democratic Myanmar--Aung San Suu Kyi stays silent on UN report on Rohingya genocide.

• UN Chief : Myanmar leader Suu Kyi ‘should have resigned’.

• Documentary - Slavery Routes : The exploitation of 2.5M former slaves.

• India may face sanctions by the US.

• Children separated from their families by Trump’s "Zero Tolerance Policy”, say their trauma continues.

• Kerala floods: Five airlines offer to fly aid for victims.

• Snowden Archive : 9 years' worth of newsletters in batches of the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division -- the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID).

• Ugandan farmers emerge victorious after a month-long occupation of UN office.

• White House counsel Don McGahn, who cooperated with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, to resign. Trump confirms.

• Germany is seeking independence from digital technologies from the United States--pushes to fund cyber security research.

• Special Series - Child Soldiers Reloaded : The privatization of war.

• Special Series - Guantanamo 22 : How a group of men from China's Muslim Uighur community were sold in Afghanistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo as terrorists.

• More than 100 human skeletons found in mass grave in Sri Lanka.

• UK will provide military training to Nigeria to help fight Boko Haram.

• Iran ready to abandon nuclear deal.

• Trump accuses China of stalling progress with North Korea.

• Trump hails North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un, sees no need to resume U.S.-South Korea war game

• Israel threatens 'strong' action against Iranian forces in Syria after Damascus and Tehran reached a new accord on security cooperation.

• Trump aid cuts hitting Palestinians hard.

• China could scrap two-child policy, ending nearly 40 years of limits.

• Pakistan protests to cut ties with the Netherlands.

• India banned most of its currency bills from circulation without warning in 2016-- the recall failed to uncover 'black money’.

This Week in War : 4th week, August 2018

Rohingya refugee children ride on a swing ride on the day of Eid al-Adha in the Kutupalong refugee camp, August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

4th week, August 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.

• *Feature* - Deadly Kerala floods displace over 800,000. Fear of disease spreads.

• Saudi coalition attack on fleeing civilians massacres another 24 Yemeni children.

• China’s mass internment camps have no clear end in sight.

• Jewish voters in Jerusalem elections have 187 polling stations, Palestinians only have 6.

• Former SS camp guard, Jakiv Palij, deported to Germany from USA.

• 'Treated as animals': US prisoners gear up for nationwide strike.

• Ex-Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and is happy to help with the Russia probe.

• Malana : A Himalayan village belonging to Alexander the Great's armies descendants. 

• NGOs and refugees say Yemeni women can face economic and physical abuse, but fear speaking out due to stigma.

• Saudi Arabia 'seeks death penalty' for 5 human rights activists. Among the detainees is Israa al-Ghomgham, who Saudi activists say is the first woman to face capital punishment for human rights-related work. 

• Israel approves plans for 1,000 settlement homes. 96% of homes approved are located in isolated settlements.

• Yemenis shut down construction of a Saudi military base.

• Drug tunnel ran from old KFC in Arizona, USA to Mexico bedroom.

• Pakistan disputes US account of Pompeo-Khan phone call.

• US Navy re-establishes Cold-War era naval fleet to check Russia’s military expansion.

• Trump redirects over $200 million in U.S. aid meant for West Bank, Gaza.

This Week in War : 2nd week, August 2018

Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel near the southern city of Sderot, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

2nd week, August 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.  

• Bangladeshi authorities are "unlawfully attacking" student protesters with machetes and sticks and assaulted media workers, Human Rights Watch group says.

• Yemen War : Airstrike by Saudi-UAE military explodes a school bus killing at least 50 children --Red Cross.

• Trump officials were warned that family separations would traumatize children.

• Israel pounds Gaza, killing a 9-month pregnant woman and her 16-month child.

• Foreign Policy Security Brief: Catch up on everything from the Korean War remains turned over by North Korea to deal-making with al-Qaeda in Yemen to Russia’s proposal to cooperate with the United States on rebuilding Syria.

• Yemen War : Saudi-UAE coalition are using al-Qaeda fighters against Houthi rebels.

• Trump administration seeks to end refugee status for millions of Palestinians.

• Australia's most populous state '100 %' in drought.

• Crime Against Humanity: 99-year-old Nuremberg prosecutor calls out Trump’s detention of children.

• U.S Congressman Rand Paul delivers a letter from Trump to Putin.

• The U.S. administration is reluctant to help with Syrian recovery.

• Rashida Tlaib is set to be the first Muslim American woman in Congress.

• US-China Trade War : US sets date for additional $16bn in tariffs on China products.

• US-China Trade War : China to hit the US back with tariffs on US imports worth $16bn.

• Trump’s $12 billion bailout is no remedy for farmers caught in trade war

• Saudi-Canada Spat : Why is Canada and Saudi Arabia in a diplomatic spat?

• Saudi-Canada Spat : Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador.

• Saudi-Canada Spat : Saudi Arabia halts all medical treatment for citizens in Canada.

• US Mid-Term Elections : Women break records for nominations.

• Spanish fighter jet accidentally fires missile over Estonia.

• Puerto Rico Update : Hurricane Maria deaths are more than 1,400, and not 64 as claimed in the US official death count.

• Puerto Rico Update : The Puerto Ricans still without electricity.

• President Trump’s first congressional endorsement was just arrested for insider trading.

• North Korean state media urge US to drop sanctions immediately.

• Venezuela cracks down on opposition in wake of  ‘attack’.

• French police accused of harassing aid workers at Calais, also known as the “Jungle” internal displacement camp in France.

This Week in War : 1st week, August 2018

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel who say they should receive a blanket exemption from military conscription staged a sit-down protest at a major Jerusalem junction on Thursday, prompting scuffles with police. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

1st week, August 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.  

• Saudi Arabia planned to invade Qatar last summer, but Rex Tillerson’s effort to stop it may have cost him his position.

• US-backed Saudi airstrike on a family with 9 children shows “clear violations” of war.

• US secret wars in Africa rage on.

• Israel intercepts aid boat bound for besieged Gaza Strip.

• Around 4 million residents of the northern Indian state of Assam are at risk of losing their citizenship.

• Gunmen take dozens hostage in eastern Afghanistan.

• U.S. President Donald Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end a federal criminal probe into the 2016 US election and Russian meddling.

• Saudi Arabia has arrested 2 more women’s rights activists in their crackdown on activists, clerics and journalists.

•  New Ebola virus outbreak days after previous epidemic ends.

• Russia will deploy its military police on the Golan Heights frontier between Syria and Israel.

• Google plans to release a censored search engine in China.