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The Karabakh Air Gate Opens: Future Prospects for Fuzuli Airport (Orkhan Baghirov, The Jamestown Foundation)

Late last month (October 26), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, together inaugurated the Fuzuli International Airport, in Azerbaijan’s...

Russia and Belarus Sign a Package of Union State Programs (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 4, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed a package of 28 Union State programs, formerly called “road maps,” for economic integration with Russia....

First Strike: The Political Consequences of Ukraine’s Bayraktar Drone Attack on Russia-Backed Forces in Donbas (Yuri Lapaiev, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 26, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) for the first time used the Turkish-produced Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) to...

Suit accusing Hindu group of forced labour widens to 5 US states (Al Jazeera)

A federal lawsuit accusing a prominent Hindu organisation in the United States of trafficking workers from India and forcing them into labour at Hindu...

Pakistan hosts US, China, Russia to discuss Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan has hosted senior diplomats from the United States, China and Russia in Islamabad to discuss the situation in neighbouring Afghanistan, where a deepening...

Bangladesh votes in rural council elections amid fear of violence (Al Jazeera)

Bangladesh is holding village council elections that are certain to further consolidate the ruling party’s power but have raised concerns about the state of...

The COP26 deal will not be enough to end SA’s coal addiction (Ray Mwareya, Al Jazeera)

South Africa runs on coal. It is the world’s seventh-largest coal producer, and about 80 percent of the country’s energy is generated by it....

Who can resolve Ethiopia’s conflict? (Al Jazeera)

International diplomatic efforts are under way to try to end the fighting in Ethiopia. Envoys from African countries and the United States have held meetings...

Yemeni journalist and child killed in car bombing in Aden (Al Jazeera)

A Yemeni journalist and her child have been killed in a car bombing that targeted her family’s vehicle in Yemen’s southern city of Aden,...

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