Regional Overview: Central Asia and the Caucasus
6-12 December 2020
Last week in Central Asia and the Caucasus, US forces targeted the Taliban with an airstrike in Afghanistan. The Islamic State (IS) likewise attacked Kabul with rockets for a second time within one month.…
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Regional Overview: South Asia
6-12 December 2020
Last week in South Asia, separatist militants in Balochistan province of Pakistan launched targeted attacks against Pakistani security forces. Targeted violence also increased in the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) region of India, where unidentified militants conducted remote attacks on security force camps and public spaces.…
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Regional Overview: East Asia
6-12 December 2020
Last week in East Asia, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily founder, Jimmy Lai, was charged under the new National Security Law. In Taiwan, supporters of a Pingtung MP held a demonstration in solidarity with the legislator, who has been on a hunger strike while detained in custody over corruption allegations.…
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Regional Overview: Africa
6-12 December 2020
Last week in Africa, election-related violence was reported in Uganda and Ghana, as well as the Anglophone regions of Cameroon; hundreds of schoolboys were kidnapped in the northwest of Nigeria; and the dissolution of the ruling coalition prompted rioting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…
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The Wartime Transformation of AQAP in Yemen
In late January 2020, an apparent United States drone strike targeted a car in Yakla, a mountainous area situated across Yemen’s Al Bayda and Marib governorates. Inside the car were Qasim Al Raymi and Abu Al Baraa Al Ibbi, the emir and a senior jurist, respectively, of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the local branch of al-Qaeda’s global franchise (Al Masdar, 2 February 2020).… Details
Regional Overview: United States
29 November-5 December 2020
Last week, the overall number of demonstrations in the United States remained static relative to the week prior. Pandemic-related events again accounted for the highest number of demonstrations. ‘Stop the Steal’ rallies continued across the country as President Donald Trump released a White House video repeating his allegations about widespread voter fraud, reinvigorating portions of his support base (The Guardian, 2 December 2020).…
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