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’.