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Pro-Palestine activists staged a protest outside an Israeli arms manufacturer’s plant in the borough of Oldham, UK, as part of their nationwide campaign against one of Israel’s “largest arms manufacturers”:

• Production of Israeli Arms Halted – Elbit’s Oldham Factory Shut Down By Palestine Action (Palestine Action)

• Jailed 5 Years Without a Fair Trial: My Questions For Mohammed Halabi’s Prosecutor (Times of Israel)

The so-called “forever war” (better used to describe “the expansive American commitment to deploy force across the globe in the name of fighting terrorism”) is by no means ending simply because of America’s incompetent and overdue withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan:

• Biden Pulled Troops Out of Afghanistan. He Didn’t End The ‘Forever War’ (Washington Post)

“A lot of people, because they lacked confidence that Kabul would be able to save them, capitulated.” More and more people chose this route, “so there was very little fighting, which is why it suddenly happened so fast”:

• Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms (Politico)

“For almost two decades now, billions of dollars in corruption proceeds have been funneled from Afghanistan, a country devastated by four decades of conflict, to Dubai” consequently stunting Afghanistan’s economic and political development:

• Afghanistan Debacle Potentially Puts UAE on The Spot (James M. Dorsey)

“It has also been found that activists of Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) had come to Indore and instigated the youths for such incidents”:

• Mob Beats Muslim Bangle Seller In Indore, Minister Says Used Fake Name (NDTV)

“Earlier, pro-independence group JKLF and socio-religious group Jamaat-e-Islami were banned and their leadership arrested in 2019, ahead of the Centre’s move to end J&K’s special constitutional position in August that year”:

• Reports of Likely Ban on Hurriyat Groups Fuels Tension in Kashmir (The Hindu)

Israeli airstrikes on high-rise buildings in Gaza “left dozens of people homeless and destroyed scores of businesses” according to the HRW, before calling upon Israel to produce evidence to justify the attacks:

• Rights Group: Israeli Strikes on Gaza Apparently Broke Law (Associated Press)

Nearly 6,000 cadre of the Haqqani Network, an important faction of the Taliban, have taken control of Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul:

• Hardline Haqqani Network Put in Charge of Kabul Security (Voice of America)

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