September, 2021

• 7 September

  Report: Israel to call on US not to withdraw forces from Iraq, Syria

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will today call on the US President Joe Biden not to withdraw American forces from Iraq and Syria, Israeli media reported. Bennett was scheduled to meet with Biden yesterday on his first visit to the White House as prime minister, but the meeting was postponed …

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• 7 September

  Belarus Floods EU with Migrants from Middle East

  

  Thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are pouring into the European Union from Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. The surge in illegal immigration is being orchestrated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is accused of trying to blackmail the EU into reversing the sanctions …

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• 7 September

  3 killed, 20 wounded in Quetta suicide bombing

  

  Three people were killed and 20 others wounded in a suicide attack on a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday. The suicide bombing targeted a Frontier Constabulary check-post on the Mastung road in Quetta, the provincial capital, a senior police officer said. Azhar Akram, deputy inspector-general of …

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• 7 September

  Six neighboring countries hold talks on Afghanistan

  

  A meeting of Special Representatives of China, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan was hosted by Pakistan on Sunday, Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq said. In a tweet, Sadiq tweeted on Sunday that he chaired the virtual meeting and the latest situation in Afghanistan was discussed. The representatives …

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• 7 September

  Afghan evacuees who fail initial screening will head for Kosovo

  

  Kosovo has agreed to take in Afghanistan evacuees who fail to clear initial rounds of screening and host them for up to a year, a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity Saturday. The U.S. Embassy in Kosovo said later in a statement that the arrangement did not mean Kosovo …

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• 7 September

  Taliban pledges to form inclusive and accountable govt

  

  The Taliban on Sunday vowed to form an “inclusive and accountable” government in Afghanistan. Taliban Deputy Leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said that the government would be formed soon. “We are working to form an inclusive government that represents all the people of Afghanistan, but security is essential to start …

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• 7 September

  ISI chief in Kabul for talks with Taliban: sources

  

  Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, the director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency, arrived in Kabul on Saturday for talks with the Taliban regarding matters related to the safe evacuation of foreign nationals, border management and security in the region, sources said. Geo News reported that Hameed will …

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• 7 September

  POLAND DELIVERS ANOTHER BLOW TO INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF REFUGEES

  

  Poland’s mistreatment of migrants trying to enter via its border with Belarus is seen by legal experts as one further step in the erosion of refugee rights established by international law. In the village of Usnarz Gorny, on the Polish border with Belarus, scenes as though taken from an absurdist …

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• 7 September

  DEMOCRACY DIGEST: POLAND ACCUSES EU OF ‘HYBRID WAR’, WHILE HUNGARY CLAIMS VICTORY

  

  The failure of the European Commission to activate the rule-of-law mechanism and prevent Poland and Hungary from benefiting from EU funds is being hailed as a victory in Budapest. Warsaw is still mad about being forced to reverse its judicial reforms. The pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet was celebrating as a …

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• 7 September

  Afghan Disaster Holds Lessons for Western Policy in Balkans

  

  The West should see its humiliation in Afghanistan as a wake-up call to reconsider its strategies in other parts of the world – like the Balkans. “The very same politicians who told us that Afghanistan was critical, that was worth dying for, that was the existential threat to global security… …

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