Former Soviet states talk up 'Middle Corridor' route

A freight route via the Caucasus and Central Asia offers an alternative route from China to Europe

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Chad’s peace deal will be only partially successful

The junta is due to start a national dialogue on August 20, shortly after signing a peace deal with several rebel groups

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A UN envoy is trying to resolve differences between Iraq's main Kurdish parties

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The killing of a top Pakistani Taliban commander comes as peace negotiations with the group stall

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Petro has appointed 20 cabinet ministries, attempting to include loyalists, centrists and others of traditional parties

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The illegal drug trade is a joint problem, but its impacts differ on either side of the border

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Moqtada al-Sadr has demonstrated that a new government is unlikely without his tacit approval

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The EU has been politically flexible but courts are a different matter and will make this an argument about sovereignty

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President Guillermo Lasso’s economic reform agenda is becoming ever more complicated

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The UN-brokered truce was extended for a second time until October 2

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