Middle east

The Taliban announced a caretaker cabinet (NYT) that includes many hard-line figures who held authority when the group last ruled Afghanistan in…

Israeli security forces launched an operation to recapture (Guardian) six Palestinians who they said escaped from one of the country’s highest-security prisons.…

  Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that reopening a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem for Palestinian affairs is a “bad idea”…

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen’s civil war said that a drone attack from Yemen wounded eight people (Al Jazeera) at Saudi…

The United Nations announced that its humanitarian operations in Afghanistan will continue (UN News). Some eighteen million people, almost half of…

In a speech about the end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Biden called the evacuation of Kabul an “extraordinary…

The countries’ navies will participate in joint drills (Reuters) in the Caspian Sea in November, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said.

Speaking in Mosul, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to increase France’s reconstruction support (AFP) in Iraq. His visit followed a Baghdad summit…

A ruling from the European Court of Human Rights asked Latvia and Poland to provide emergency provisions (Politico), such as food…

Iran’s parliament approved eighteen of the nineteen people (Al Jazeera) nominated to President Ebrahim Raisi’s cabinet. Many of the new ministers worked…

The United States and United Kingdom warned citizens in Kabul yesterday to stay away from the airport due to a…

New Delhi announced plans to lease out public infrastructure (Hindustan Times) to private operators over the next four years to raise around…

Amid droughts across Iraq and Syria, more than twelve million people are losing access (Al Jazeera) to water, food, and electricity, aid…

Five hundred tons of medical supplies due to be delivered to Afghanistan this week have been held up (WaPo) by the Kabul…

Israel, Qatar, and the United Nations reached an agreement (Haaretz) that will allow funds for the Gaza Strip to be transferred through…

More than eighteen thousand people have been evacuated (Reuters) from Afghanistan since the Taliban took over Kabul, according to a North Atlantic…

Hezbollah’s top leader said the group facilitated a shipment of Iranian fuel (Al Jazeera) to Lebanon amid the country’s energy crisis and…

With U.S. support, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will block a transfer (Politico) of $450 million in funds to Afghanistan in the…

Algerian police arrested sixty-one people (AFP) in several provinces on suspicion of lynching a man who was falsely accused of starting the…

“The key question facing Haiti—as it confronts widespread gang violence and lack of confidence in elections—is whether any new intervention…