This week’s military action is part of a longer cycle of escalation and retaliation, said Clionadh Raleigh, founder and chief executive of Acled, a conflict monitoring group.
Prof. Clionadh Raleigh, ACLED founder and CEO, comments on Iran’s strategy of continued escalation and why the current cycle could drag on indefinitely.
Monitor ACLED says there have been more than 100,000 conflict-related deaths on all sides since the coup.
Protests can also disrupt economic activity through looting and business closures, said Susanna Deetlefs of ACLED.
Ladd Serwat said armed groups in the province have complicated humanitarian access in the past, particularly where communities are perceived to be aligned with rival ethnic groups.
On Tuesday evening, groups of Cubans took to the streets across the island in protest after its third nationwide blackout since the beginning of the year. ACLED answers four commonly asked questions to unpack the situation:
ACLED’s Senior Africa Analyst, Ladd Serwat, and ACLED’s Regional Desk Coordinator for Africa and North America, Susanna Deetlefs, comment on the scale of anti-migrant demonstrations and violence in South Africa on 30 June.
But the army has been unable to repel the drone strikes, with 27 hitting the city in June, the highest monthly total since the conflict began, according to Acled.
Damascus remains less exposed to political violence than other governorates in post-Assad Syria, pointing to a cautiously positive outlook despite residual security threats.
ACLED’s Philippines Senior Research Assistant Tomas Buenaventura comments on the kick-off the impeachment trial of Sara Duterte, vice president of the Philippines and daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte.