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Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia. Iraq Seeks to Ease Saudi-Iran Hostility at Baghdad Summit (VoA)

Reuters Iraq has invited Iran and Tehran's Gulf Arab foes to a summit in Baghdad with the objective of calming tensions which have brought them...

Cameroon. Cameroon Says Numbers of Defecting Boko Haram Members Continue to Increase (VoA)

Moki Edwin Kindzeka Cameroon has turned public buildings on its northern border with Nigeria into temporary housing for former Boko Haram militants. Hundreds of Boko...

USA/China. ‘Strategic Patience’ Turns to Exasperation at Lagging US-China Trade Talks (VoA)

Rob Garver The U.S. business community cheered the appointment of Katherine Tai as U.S. trade representative in the early months of the Biden administration, seeing...

Afghanistan. Afghans Facing a Hunger Emergency as Winter Approaches (VoA)

Lisa Schlein The World Food Program is urgently appealing for $200 million  to purchase and pre-position food for millions of Afghans before the winter snows...

Afghanistan/Uganda. Uganda Welcomes First Group of Afghan Refugees (VoA)

Agence France-Presse A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country touched down early Wednesday in Uganda where they will be given...

Afghanistan/Pakistan. A Win for Pakistan? (VoA)

Jamie Dettmer Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was quick last week to endorse the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan, praising the militant group, which...

Afghanistan. Kabul Evacuations Intensify as G-7 Leaders Fail to Shift US Deadline (VoA)

Henry Ridgwell U.S. allies say they have no choice but to follow the American timetable and withdraw their troops from Afghanistan by August 31, despite...

Syria. Fate of the representative of the Autonomous Administration of northern and eastern Syria in Erbil still unknown (SOHR)

The representative of the Autonomous Administration of northern and eastern Syria, Jihad Hassan, has been still detained in Erbil by the authorities of the...

Syria. Iranian-backed militias in Deir Ezzor recruit children in military formation dubbed “Caliphate Cubs” (SOHR)

As the Iranian militias’ techniques are similar to the ISIS’, Iranian-backed militias are seeking to raise a new generation of fighters in areas under...

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