This Week in War : 1st week, September 2018

Participants perform at Mass Games in May Day stadium. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

1st week, September 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.

• Syrian and Russian warplanes pound Idlib before peace talks.

• South Korea slashes North Korea human rights budget, raises regime aid.

• Israeli court rules to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village. It is home to 180 Palestinian families.

• 11 million people in urgent need in Lake Chad region.

• Twitter says Trump not immune from getting kicked off.

• Mourning and anger at funeral of Yemeni children killed in US-Saudi school bus attack.

• Syria’s Idlib's civilians in survival mode for Syrian government assault.

• Guatemala bans head of UN anti-corruption body from country.

• As much as 90% of historical collection destroyed in fire at the Brazil National Museum.

• Britain charges two Russians for the Russian state-backed plot to kill the Skripals.

• Trump says he did not discuss assassinating Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad.

• Muslim Uighurs who escaped Xinjiang, China confirm reports of 'systematic campaign of human rights violations’.