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Description: The ruling military junta in Myanmar following low outturn in their proposition to negotiate with rebel groups has launched a renewed offensive in the country’s northern parts. The military junta has launched new offensives in the city of Sagaing, attempting to neutralize or force a retreat of local rebel forces northwards where the junta aims at capturing the city of Indaw. In the eastern parts of the country the junta is still pressed into a defensive posture facing widescale armed opposition from the Karen National Liberation Army near the border with Thailand. President Hlaing previously offered nationwide pardons and proposed a hundred – day negotiations fr
Description: The Pakistani military targeted several border outposts of the Afghan Taliban while also targeting strongholds of the Pakistani Taliban near the town of Chaman in the Balochistan province. The attack follows the recent escalation in the cross – border conflict after Pakistan was accused by the Afghan Taliban of targeting a school in the Kunar province last week and a drug rehabilitation center earlier this month. UN’s office of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that Pakistan struck the school in Kunar and destroyed the drug rehabilitation hospital last month. Both countries have been under a Chinese mediated ceasefire which took place earlier this month,
Description: Romania’s Social Democrats (PSD) and the far – right Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR) have officially created a joined initiative to instigate a no – confidence vote against prime minister Ilie Bolojan. The prime minister has recently come under scrutiny for presenting severe austerity measures to reduce the country’s budget deficit. PSD’s leader Sorin Grindeanu was accused by the prime minister of forming a coalition with the far – right to topple democracy in the country. AUR has recently upscaled in popularity as George Simion, the defeated presidential candidate, aims to become the country’s next prime minister. Centrist president, Nicusor Dan, could be
Description: US president Donald Trump has rejected the latest proposal from Iran to end the war after claiming it was not enough to bring the US side back to the negotiating table. He also stated that Iran’s leadership structure was completely disoriented and internal divisions further compromised Iran’s position in the negotiations. Iran’s leadership is undoubtedly under tremendous pressure as recent public posturing through statements and withdrawals have demonstrated. The IRGC is largely believed to be the center of power which translates into the hardline position Iran is undertaking in the current constellation of relations and negotiations with the US. US intelligenc
Description: Mali’s military junta leader, Assimi Goita issued a public statement encouraging the Malian civil population to remain united and undeterred from the threat of terrorists and separatists. Goita later met with the Russian ambassador to Mali, Igor Gromyko and a delegation of Russian military personnel. The Russian Ministry of Defense after the meeting issued a statement claiming that JNIM and FLA were merely regrouping and mobilizing as the threat was far from over. JNIM’s spokesperson, Bina Diarra, published a statement claiming that JNIM and the FLA are planning a sustained siege on the capital Bamako which was already overburdened by the fuel blockade imposed b
Description: The United Arab Emirates have decided to abandon the oil producing cartel known as OPEC and its sister organization OPEC+ citing global instability and the need to produce more oil in times of crisis. UAE was one of the largest members of OPEC and OPEC+ and one of the founding countries to join the organization that controls the global output of oil. The Emirates decided to outline their newest strategy at the latest GCC meeting potentially risking the stability of the Gulf alliance and decreasing Saudi Arabia’s clout as OPEC’s de – facto leader. UAE came under the heaviest bombardment in the Iranian war as most of its oil producing and transporting infrastructu
Description: Terrorists linked to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked a village in Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria killing more than 30 civilians. The attack arrives in a difficult period for the country which is facing a trilateral security crisis and lacks the capabilities to counter the threats. Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri stated that Nigeria would increase military and security presence in the region and continue to support regional militia and vigilante groups to counteract the terrorist threat from the Islamic State. In a previous attack, unidentified terrorists kidnapped more than 23 children from a school compound, 15 of who
Description: The Mexican special forces have announced that they have arrested Audias Flores aka El Jardinero, the potential successor of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes who was killed in a security operation in Feb. Audias Flores, according to the DEA and Mexican authorities was much more influential than Cervantes having directed operations for vast networks of laboratories in several federal states, controlled smuggling routes and distribution networks for the cartel in the US. Mexican security officials confirmed that Flores was captured using US provided intelligence and investigative information. Cesar Alejandro, a key money – laundering lieutenant and Flores’ partner was a
Description: US President Donald Trump met with his national security advisors where they discussed and assessed the latest proposal by Iran which stipulated a mutual unblocking of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump previously stated that even though the proposal was a large step forward it did not satisfy the negotiating position of the US as they wanted to put the nuclear file first on the dispute agenda. Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, finished the diplomatic tour in Moscow where he met with Russian president Vladimir Putin as he expressed strong support for Iran’s sovereignty and resistance towards the US and Israeli intervention. Trump would soon face domestic pressu
Description: More than 42 people were killed in the Wadi Fira province in eastern Chad near the Sudanese border after a dispute over water resources rapidly escalated. The Chadian military was forced to intervene as the violence exceeded larger areas and retaliatory attacks were launched by the attacked group. Interethnic violence is not uncommon in Chad as herders and farmers oftentimes engage in armed confrontations over land disputes and water resources. Chad’s eastern border has been indefinitely closed due to the civil war in Sudan after fighting between the SAF and the RSF abruptly spilled into the country earlier this month. The country is also the largest recipient o