How he intends to do that I have no idea, since he’s clearly not planning to drop his judicial agenda. Tens of thousands of people turned out across Israel to renew their protests against the judicial package, prompting Netanyahu to deliver a televised speech promising to “mend the rift” that his government has opened. This is essentially the “leave Bibi alone” act because its specific intent is to shield Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being removed over his ongoing corruption trial. Meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset on Thursday passed part of the government’s judicial “reform” package, specifically a measure that prevents a prime minister from being deemed “unfit” to govern for any reason other than health and bars any institution other than the cabinet from making that determination. His death sparked a protest in Tulkarm and, given that Thursday was the first day of Ramadan and that Ramadan is often a tense time in the Occupied Territories, has raised concerns about potential escalation. There’s been a proliferation of localized militias in the West Bank in response to Israeli violence going back to last year. Abu Khadijeh had been accused of involvement in recent shooting incidents and was later identified as one of the founders of the Tulkarm Brigade militant group. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, Amir Abu Khadijeh, while attempting to arrest him in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Thursday. The next step would presumably lifting Syria’s suspension in the Arab League. The expectation seems to be that they’ll reopen the embassies sometime after Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows Ramadan. It’s unclear if the Saudis are extracting any concessions from Assad but they have in the past suggested that an increased effort to quash the illegal Captagon trade and a reduction of Iran’s presence in Syria would be prerequisites for Saudi-Syrian normalization. It’s also another diplomatic setback for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who desperately wants his own normalization with the Saudis but has seen them instead restoring relations with two countries that are openly hostile toward Israel. It would be a major victory for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his efforts to rebuild ties with the rest of the Arab world. Reuters, citing “three sources with knowledge of the matter” (thanks for narrowing it down guys), is reporting that the Saudi and Syrian governments have agreed to reopen their mutual embassies following a visit to Riyadh by “a senior Syrian intelligence official.” Assuming this is true it comes more than 11 years after the Saudis closed their embassy in Damascus amid the first stages of the Syrian civil war and about two weeks after the Saudis and Iranians reached a similar accord (which is apparently progressing, by the way). HTS could benefit from that by recruiting disaffected fighters to its ranks. If the Turkish government takes any major steps to normalize relations with Damascus it’s undoubtedly going to lose credibility with its rebel proxies. HTS may be escalating its activity in an effort to draw fighters away from rebel groups operating under Turkish oversight. Another 10 HTS fighters and six soldiers were reportedly wounded. I’m sure there will be more to say about it on Sunday.Ī front-line skirmish between Syrian soldiers and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighters in Aleppo province left at least ten people dead (five on either side) on Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Extradited to The Hague, Taylor was tried and convicted in 2012 on 11 war crimes counts and sentenced to 50 years in prison by the post-war Special Court for Sierra Leone. Taylor became president of Liberia in 1997 but lost power in 2003 toward the end of the overlapping Second Liberian Civil War. The RUF was later charged with committing a vast array of war crimes. Sierra Leone government eventually emerged victorious thanks in part to substantial foreign assistance, particularly from the UK.
March 23, 1991: The rebel Revolutionary United Front, with the support of Liberian rebel leader Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone, kicking off the 1991-2002 Sierra Leone Civil War. The resulting settlement saw both defeated countries ceding territory to Chile, including Bolivia’s entire parcel of Pacific coastline.
The conflict, fought over a variety of issues including control of Pacific shipping routes and nitrate deposits in the region, ended with Chile victorious over a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance. March 23, 1879: A small Chilean army defeats an even smaller Bolivian force at the Battle of Topáter, which helped trigger the 1879-1884 War of the Pacific. Nader Shah seated on the famous “Peacock Throne” after taking it from the Mughal Empire (Wikimedia Commons)
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