On Sunday, August 15th, the Taliban finally captured the Afghan capital of Kabul, after weeks of renewed violence between the Taliban insurgency and the U.S.-backed Afghan government. The same day, Al-Jazeera published a video showing Taliban fighters having captured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s presidential palace after the President fled to
On Monday, July 19th, the ice cream retailer Ben & Jerry’s announced an end to sales in East Jerusalem and the Israeli colonies in the West Bank, after years of pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS). The move was welcomed by Mahmoud Nawajaa, a coordinator for the
On Sunday, July 4th, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) issued a series of demands as prerequisites for a ceasefire in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Among the conditions are the full withdrawal of both Ethiopian and Eritrean troops from the region. The TPLF wants a guarantee that neither country
On July 7, President Jovenel Moise of Haiti, and member of the centre-right Tet Kale party, was assassinated in an attack on his home by multiple gunmen. At a press conference, Director of the Haitian National Police Leon Charles announced that the twenty-eight member assassination squad had been identified, several
Recently, large-scale fighting in Afghanistan has resumed as the Taliban has made major gains in territorial control. According to NBC News, the Taliban now control roughly a third of Afghanistan, while another 42% of Afghan territory is currently embroiled in a conflict between government forces and Taliban insurgents. In an
On June 13th, 2021, the Israeli Knesset approved the formation of a new rotation government to be led by a massive political coalition. The coalition, dominated by the right-wing Yamina coalition and the secular-centrist Yesh Atid party, includes elements from nearly every corner of Israeli political culture, such as the
