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US: Blinken to make first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa (Al Jazeera)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa in an official capacity next week, visiting Kenya, Nigeria...

Turkmenistan’s dissidents fear crackdown in Turkish exile (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

On a chilly afternoon in Istanbul’s Kadikoy neighbourhood, Nurmukhammed Annaev poked his head out of the window looking for fellow dissidents from Turkmenistan who...

Belarusian airline stops flying Middle East citizens from Turkey (Al Jazeera)

Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia has said it will stop allowing citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen to board flights from Turkey to Belarus at...

France hosts Libya conference ahead of polls in war-torn nation (Al Jazeera)

French President Emmanuel Macron hosts leaders and diplomats in Paris for an international conference on Friday aimed at ensuring Libya sticks to a plan...

Water scarcity reaches crisis point in northern Syria (Melissa Pawson, Al Jazeera)

For 71 of his 81 years, Abu Mohammad Sheikh Hussein has been farming the land in northeast Syria. These last two years have seen...

The Fate of China’s Rail Line to Uzbekistan Likely to Be Decided in Kyrgyzstan (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

As a part of its Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese plans to construct a railway from Xinjiang through Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan and onward to...

Crisis on the Polish-Belarusian Border—What Strategy for Warsaw? (Jakub Bornio, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 8, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda held consultations in Warsaw with the government, military and border guard service regarding the artificial migration crisis...

Belarus as Latest Front in Acute East-West Standoff (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

A new point of acute East-West tension has emerged on the Polish-Belarusian border. Minsk and the West have been at loggerheads since August 2020,...

Austria keen on academic cooperation with Iran (IRNA)

Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Tehran Wolf Dietrichheim has underlined that his country welcomes academic cooperation with the Iranian University of Religions...

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