https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/28/guards-clash-again-on-kyrgyz-tajik-border-ceasefire-falters The two Central Asian countries and former Soviet Republics Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have recently reignited conflict on their border which had been more or less quelled since they agreed to a ceasefire in May of 2021. The border along the southwesternmost parts of Kyrgyzstan and the northwest of Tajikistan have long been controversial ever since the boundaries were first… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/24/iran-nuclear-deal-unlikely-without-us-prisoner-release-report Since the United States dropped the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in 2018, the United States has been barred from holding direct talks with Iran and now mediators are needed for all communication between the two states. The 2015 deal was struck in order to loosen the constricting trade embargo on Iran enacted by the United States in 1995…. Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/17/iran-to-reopen-oic-representative-office-in-saudi-arabia The two countries of Iran and Saudi Arabia are ready to reconcile their diplomatic ties, albeit tentatively, with the reopening of an Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia. This is the prospective result of the fifth set of talks in a series of negotiations since April of 2021 looking to move past the two states’ rocky history in order to… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakhstan-detains-almost-10000-over-deadly-unrest-2022-01-11/ Following a raising of gas prices in Kazakhstan, especially the Mangystau region of western Kazakhstan where poor infrastructure and rising cost of food in comparison to cities such as Almaty and the capital Nur-Sultan have been building discontent, protests broke out. These protests were supposedly peaceful at first, however they soon progressed in vehemence and aggression to the point… Read more »
