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.