The meeting follows the hosting of a Taliban delegation by Iran earlier this year. Iran is critical of the US military presence in Afghanistan, and the Biden administration has not committed to the May deadline to remove American troops from the country. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met Afghan …

The Saudi-led coalition also said it destroyed one of the Houthis’ ballistic missiles in Yemen. The Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed they targeted Saudi capital of Riyadh on Thursday with four armed drones, the latest reported attack in their stepped-up cross-border campaign against the kingdom. Saudi Arabia hasn’t confirmed the …

The United States is once again trying to help the Nile dam negotiations resume, this time leaning harder on the African Union. US special envoy for Sudan Donald Booth embarked on a regional tour March 27 to revive the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia …