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Recent Trends in Jordanian Demonstrations
10 May 2018
On 27 January 2018, the Jordanian government approved a new budget which removed subsidies on wheat and imposed a tax hike on over 100 common items. However, protests in the kingdom were less attended and less widespread than anticipated due to the same factors that limited protests during the Arab Spring. During the Arab Spring,…
- Analysis
- Civilians At Risk
- Human Rights
- Middle East
- Political Stability
- Resources
- Rioting And Protests
- Violence Against Civilians
Tareq Saleh’s National Resistance Forces
10 May 2018
Going by the name of the National Resistance Forces (NRF), a number of fighters loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have recently made substantive territorial gains against their former allies in western Yemen. Following the collapse of the Houthi-Saleh alliance that led to the battle of Sana’a in December 2017 (ACLED, 16 February 2018),…
- Analysis
- Civilians At Risk
- Focus On Militias
- Governance
- Middle East
- Political Stability
- Pro-Government Militias
- Remote Violence
- Violence Against Civilians
Regional Overview – Middle East 7 May 2018
9 May 2018
Events relating to elections and labour concerns stood out in a number of countries this past week, which included International Workers’ Day on May 1. In Iraq, Islamic State (IS) militants continued to engage in election-related violence. Iran’s protests were also focused primarily on labour and economic issues this past week. A number of notable…
- Analysis
- Civilians At Risk
- Conflict Monitoring
- Current Hotspots
- Middle East
- Remote Violence
- Rioting And Protests
- Violence Against Civilians
Rebel Infighting in Northern Syria: The War of Abolition
5 May 2018
Rebel infighting is not a new phenomenon in Syria’s civil war and is endemic of the weakness and disunity of the rebel and Islamist camp in the Syrian civil war. ACLED data shows a major increase in infighting over the past months in the north of the country as the “war of abolition” escalates. Causes…
- Analysis
- Civilians At Risk
- Conflict Monitoring
- Focus On Militias
- Middle East
- Political Stability
- Violence Against Civilians
Turkey’s Air War in Iraq
2 May 2018
Since the beginning of 2017, Turkish military forces have been responsible for the vast majority of the remote violence reported in the Iraqi governorates bordering Turkey. This is largely due to their ongoing conflict with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which maintains bases in northern Iraq (Iraqi News, December 25, 2017). These remote violence events…
- Analysis
- Civilians At Risk
- Conflict Monitoring
- Middle East
- Political Stability
- Remote Violence
- Violence Against Civilians
The Assassination of Clerics in Southern Yemen
2 May 2018
Over the first months of 2018, an increasing number of assassination attempts have targeted local Muslim clerics in southern Yemen. At least five imams have reportedly been killed since January, raising the total number of assassinations to 26 over the past two years (Al Jazeera, 23 April 2018). In 2018, violent incidents were reported in…
- Analysis
- Civilians At Risk
- Middle East
- Political Stability
- Unidentified Armed Groups
- Violence Against Civilians
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