Leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states met in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Sept. 15 and 16, to discuss Eurasia’s current political, economic, and security trajectory. Russia plays a prominent role in the SCO, which was originally founded by Moscow and Beijing in hopes of counterbalancing US global influence. So it came…
UK Weighs Relocating Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Truss Says
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid that she is considering moving the British embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. Truss met with Lapid on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, telling him she was reviewing the possibility of following the United…
Liz Truss Says UK May Follow US and Move Embassy to Jerusalem
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, she is considering moving the British embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Truss met Lapid at a United Nations summit in New York on Wednesday and told him she was reviewing the possibility of following the U.S. lead. Since the creation of Israel in…
Taliban Official: Explosion Kills 3 People in Afghan Capital
ISLAMABAD—An explosion in Afghanistan’s capital has killed at least three people and wounded 13 others, a Taliban official said on Wednesday. According to Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, the blast occurred in a restaurant in the city’s western Dehmazang neighborhood. A team has arrived in the area to find out…
Israeli PM Meets Turkish President, First Time in 14 Years
JERUSALEM—Israel’s prime minister has met with Turkey’s president for the first time in 14 years, the latest sign of warming ties between the two regional powers after a long and bitter rift. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, on the sidelines of…
Helicopter Crashes En Route to Turkish Wildfire; 2 Killed
ISTANBUL — A firefighting helicopter crashed Wednesday as it headed to the Turkish port of Marmaris to combat a wildfire, killing two Russian crew members, Turkey’s minister of agriculture and forestry said. The minister, Vahit Kirsci, said two Turkish citizens and three others Russians on the helicopter were injured but were not in critical condition….
Iranians Protest in Capital Over Woman’s Death in Custody
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran faced international criticism on Tuesday over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests, including clashes with security forces in the capital and other unrest that claimed at least three lives. The U.N. human rights office called for an investigation. The United States,…
Taliban Releases American Hostage in Exchange for Afghan Drug Trafficker
The Taliban has released an American engineer they’d kept captive since 2020 in exchange for a Taliban-linked Afghan tribal leader, who was serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison on heroin trafficking charges. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the prisoner exchange between American hostage Mark Frerichs and Taliban ally Bashir Noorzai took…
Iran to Join Asian Security Body Led by Russia, China
September 19, 2022
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DUBAI—Iran has moved a step closer toward becoming a permanent member of a central Asian security body dominated by Russia and China, as Tehran seeks to overcome economic isolation imposed by U.S. sanctions. Foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said last Thursday that Iran had signed a memorandum of obligations to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO),…
US Contractor Freed by Taliban in Swap for Drug Trafficker
WASHINGTON— An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States, the White House said Monday. Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who had spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was abducted in…
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