​​​​​​​The world during 2022..Russian war in Ukraine confused everyone, Arab crises continue

The Russian military move in Ukraine began during the year 2022; that caused an escalation with the West and this greatly affected the world economy, while the Turkish economic deterioration prompted Erdogan to resolve his differences with the countries of the region, including Egypt and the Gulf states, while crises and wars continued around the world at a time when climate change threatens the world's population with more severe waves of violence.

Beginning of the escalation between the West and Russia

January 2 - Resignation of the Sudanese Prime Minister, Abdullah Hamdok, after his failure to form a government.

January 24 - The Ansar Allah group (Houthis) announced the targeting of the UAE and Saudi Arabia with ballistic missiles in a "wide military operation".

January 30 - Washington plans to send troops to Eastern Europe amid rising tensions over Ukraine.

January 30 - The Israeli president arrived in the UAE for the first visit since the normalization of relations between the two countries.

January 31 - The United Nations announced that the Taliban had killed 100 members of the former Afghan government and collaborators with international forces.

A second government in Libya and Putin decides to go to war.

February 4 - Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Chinese counterpart in the midst of escalating tensions with the West and announces a "borderless" partnership.

February 6 - The Iraqi judiciary suspended the candidacy of KDP member Hoshyar Zebari for the presidency; Because of "corruption accusations".

February 10 - The Libyan parliament chooses Fathi Bashagha as prime minister, in defiance of Dbeiba's government.

February 15 - The Federal Supreme Court in Iraq issued a ruling that the oil and gas law of Başûr (southern) Kurdistan government was unconstitutional, and the latter rejected the order of the Federal Supreme Court.

February 21 - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces Moscow's recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

February 24 - Putin decides to launch a military operation in Ukraine.

Mutual sanctions between Russia and the West, and Turkey restores its relations with Saudi Arabia

March 8 - US President Joe Biden announces a ban on Russian oil and gas imports.

March 13 - Ballistic missiles were dropped on Hawler, Tehran said it targeted "secret Israeli bases".

March 16 - Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Saudi Arabia and the UAE to discuss oil and Russia.

March 31 - The Turkish Public Prosecutor requested the closure of the file on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, to refer it to Saudi Arabia.

April 2 - A two-month truce between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis takes effect.

April 16 - The death toll from floods in South Africa rises to about 400, and rains hamper relief efforts.

April 23 - Ankara closes its airspace to Russian civilian and military aircraft heading to Syria.

April 27 - Russia stops gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.

April 28 - the first since the killing of Khashoggi.. Erdogan visited Riyadh.

Russian forces applied to Ukraine, Finland and Sweden to join NATO

May 18 - Finland and Sweden submit their applications to join NATO.

May 20 - The Russian Army declares full control of the Azovstal complex in Mariupol.

May 31 - NATO conducts Defender of Europe exercises in Poland, the largest deployment of the US military

June 1 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov participated in the Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers' summit in Saudi Arabia.

June 2 - The armistice in Yemen is extended for an additional two months.

June 12 - The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament approved the resignation of the Sadrist bloc deputies.

June 15 - Egyptian-Israeli-European agreement on exporting gas to find alternatives to Russian fuel.

June 20 - Israel's defense minister says that Israel is building an "air defense coalition in the Middle East" led by the United States.

June 22 - For the first time since the murder of Khashoggi, the Saudi crown prince visited Turkey.

June 28 - for three days... NATO met in the Spanish capital, Madrid

June 30 - America, Iran and the European mediator: The Doha talks with Iran ended without any progress

The Dollar exceeds the Euro, Iraq crisis escalated

July 1 - Tunisian President Kais Saied proposed a new draft constitution, granting the President of the Republic broad powers, in clear contradiction with the current parliamentary system in the country.

July 7 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns after a series of scandals.

A new aviation agreement between Israel and Turkey is the first between them since 1951

July 9 - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in the capital, Colombo, after thousands of people demonstrated against the economic crisis.

July 13 - The euro fell below the US dollar for the first time in twenty years.

July 13 - An "extraordinary" heat wave swept across regions of Europe, devoured forests in France and Spain, and drought threatened half of Europe's lands.

July 15 - Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia, to participate in the Jeddah summit; to convince Saudi Arabia of the need to increase global oil supplies to alleviate the energy crisis triggered by the Russian-Ukrainian war.

July 22 - Moscow and Kiev sign separate agreements with Turkey and the United Nations; Regarding the export of Ukrainian grain and agricultural products stuck in ports across the Black Sea.

July 27 - Al-Sadr's supporters stormed the Iraqi parliament to protest the nomination of the Coordinating Framework for Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani to head the government after storming it on July 30, announcing an open sit-in. The sit-in ended on August 23.

Hopes about the Iranian nuclear agreement and Chinese-American tension

August 1 - US President Joe Biden announced the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US raid carried out on July 31 in Afghanistan.

August 2 - Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrives in Taiwan despite Chinese warnings.

August 3 - The parties to the conflict in Yemen agreed to extend the armistice for an additional two months.

- The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, demanded the dissolution of the Iraqi parliament and the holding of early elections. He also asked his supporters to continue their sit-in in the parliament in Baghdad until his demands are met.

August 4 - Negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file resumed after a pause that lasted for months.

- The Chinese army began military maneuvers over the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the visit concluded on August 7.

August 8 - The European Union presented a "final text" of the nuclear agreement, and Iran confirmed that it had provided "additional opinions."

August 17 - Israel announces the resumption of full diplomatic relations with Turkey.

August 18 - The French army announced that it would keep 3,000 soldiers in the Sahel region after withdrawing from Mali.

August 22 - Joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea were the largest since 2018.

August 24 - Fighting breaks out between the Tigray Liberation Front and government forces in northern Ethiopia after a five-month truce.

August 28 - Pakistan announces that more than a thousand people have been killed and millions affected; due to floods caused by climate change.

August 29 - Muqtada al-Sadr retired from politics "forever" and his supporters stormed the presidential palace, killing 30 supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr and wounding 570 others in clashes with pro-Iranian groups. Al-Sadr gave his supporters sixty minutes to stop all protests.

August 31 - Russia completely stopped the flow of gas to France.

An uprising in Rojhelat and Iranian cities and the government of Al-Dabaiba signed a new agreement with Turkey

September 16 - The killing of the young Kurdish woman, Gina Amini, while she was being held by the "morality police" for allegedly not applying the "compulsory veil laws", in an incident that sparked popular anger in Iran, Southern Kurdistan and the world.

September 18 - The Tunisian police summoned leaders of the Brotherhood's "Ennahda Movement", including Rashid Ghannouchi and former minister Ali Al-Areedh, to investigate the issue of sending mercenaries to Syria and Iraq.

September 23 - Russia organized referendums to annex Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, and Putin announced the formal annexation of four Ukrainian regions to Russia on September 30.

October 3 - The Dabaiba government signed an agreement with the Turkish occupation state to explore for oil and gas, amid the rejection of the Libyan parliament, Egypt and Greece.

October 5 - "OPEC Plus" cut oil production to support prices, and Washington considered that the alliance "stands with Russia."

October 8 - A car bomb damaged a strategic bridge linking the Russian mainland and Crimea, and Putin blamed the Ukrainian intelligence service for the attack.

October 11 - Lebanon and Israel reached an agreement on the demarcation of the maritime borders.

October 13 - After a year of political paralysis, the Iraqi parliament elected Abd al-Latif Rashid as president, and in turn appointed Muhammad Shia al-Sudani to form the government, while the Iraqi Council of Representatives granted confidence to his government on October 27.

October 14 - In a move to clamp down on freedom of expression, the Turkish Parliament passed a law providing for the imprisonment of "disseminators of misleading information".

The political vacuum is the depth of Lebanon's crises, and Netanyahu has returned to power

October 30 - Michel Aoun left the presidential palace, and the specter of a political vacuum threatened to deepen Lebanon's crises.

November 1 - The Arab Summit is held in Algiers, in the absence of the leaders of several Arab countries.

November 2 - Parties to the conflict in Ethiopia reach a truce.

November 3 - The bloc led by Netanyahu wins a majority of Knesset seats.

November 4 - Tensions escalated between the two Koreas after 180 North Korean aircraft were detected and Seoul deployed stealth fighters.

November 6 - The 27th Climate Summit was launched in Sharm El-Sheikh, with the participation of about 200 countries to discuss combating climate warming and its repercussions.

November 10 - Russia orders its forces to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

 - an explosion on Istiklal Street in Istanbul left 6 dead and 81 injured.

November 14 - The G-20 Summit kicks off in Indonesia.

November 29 - Russia postpones a meeting with the United States on the New START treaty indefinitely.

December 5 - The framework agreement is signed between the Sudanese army and opposition forces to allow the formation of a civilian government.

December 7 - The Chinese president held 3 summits in Saudi Arabia, Saudi-Chinese, Gulf-Chinese, and Arab-Chinese.

December 8 - The Lebanese parliament failed to elect a president for the ninth time since the end of Aoun's term, as the parliament's first session was on September 29.

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