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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched a crackdown on cybercriminals on August 15. The commission said on Thursday that 102 accused criminals have been deported so far, including 50 Chinese nationals.

China has been salivating over exploiting Afghanistan’s mineral wealth ever since the brutal Taliban regime seized power in 2021, and on Wednesday Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made an effort to seal the deal by offering the Taliban membership in China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

German prosecutors announced terrorism charges Wednesday against a man who they say may have planned to attack the Israeli Embassy.

At least seven nations across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have called for President Donald Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, with the White House celebrating the endorsements as proof that he is the “President of PEACE.”

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has been airing a five-party “documentary” on state television called Forging Ahead, coinciding with the 98th anniversary of the PLA’s founding on August 1.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Monday that his troops fighting in Kharkiv had faced not just Russian invading forces but mercenaries from a variety of Asian and African countries imported into the war theater.

A Pakistani court on Thursday sentenced 108 members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to prison for participating in riots after Khan was arrested in 2023.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, and dictator Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hopeful that his decade-long quest to obtain the F-35 joint strike fighter might finally succeed after an upbeat meeting with President Donald Trump at the NATO summit last week – but Trump does not seem to be in any hurry to give Erdogan his long-sought prize.

An Iranian border governor revealed this week, Afghan news outlets relayed, that Iran has dramatically increased the rate of mass deportations of Afghans, resulting in over 8,000 repatriations a day.

Iranian officials vowed to get revenge for this weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against their illegal nuclear program by launching terrorist attacks, and pledged to resume enriching uranium as quickly as possible.

Pakistan nominated President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for his “decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” in brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

Pakistan on Saturday vowed to “stand behind Iran” against Israeli airstrikes, but indefinitely closed all of its border crossings with Iran on Monday.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report on Monday that warned China has the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world and its inventory of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) could reach parity with the United States and Russia by 2030 – although Beijing would still lag behind in deliverable nuclear warheads.

A high-level Pakistani delegation to the United States, led by the former foreign minister and son of President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, praised President Donald Trump for brokering a ceasefire with India as the two nuclear-armed countries lobby U.S. lawmakers for support.

The Taliban claims that over 5 million Afghans have come home since the fall of the U.S.-backed government in the country.

India reported 7.4 percent economic growth between January and March 2025, coming in much higher than analyst predictions of 6.7 percent growth, and also much better than the 5.4 percent growth claimed by its regional rival China.

The FBI arrested two Pakistani immigration lawyers in Texas, exposing a smuggling network that imported Pakistani migrants via several forms of white-collar fraud.

A senior Pakistani security official said on Tuesday that India and Pakistan have agreed to withdraw the troop reinforcements they rushed to the border during their week-long conflict this month.

The Center for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) in New Delhi on Sunday accused China of giving air defense and satellite intelligence support to Pakistan during its clash with India in early May.

The Chinese Communist Party invited Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi to Beijing this weekend following assurances that Beijing will offer continuing support for the jihadist rulers at a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan.

China sought to claim some of the credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan brokered by President Donald Trump on Saturday, playing up phone calls made to both sides by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as the conflict escalated to the brink of war.

A member of the House of Lords has called on the British government to nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to prevent a war between India and Pakistan.

The Trump administration “immediately” took action to deescalate the situation between India and Pakistan, ultimately reaching a ceasefire peace deal, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, predicting that the Ukraine-Russia conflict would have never happened had President Trump been in office.

After a night of steadily escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan, including each side launching attacks on the other’s military bases, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday morning that his administration was able to mediate a “full and immediate ceasefire” in the conflict.

Indian and Pakistani forces traded artillery and small-arms fire across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed province of Kashmir on Thursday night.

India’s governing BJP party said on Thursday that its “Operation Sindhoor” counter-terrorist airstrikes on Pakistan “eliminated” Abdul Rauf Azhar, the operational commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist group and the mastermind behind American journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and beheading in 2002.

The conflict between India and Pakistan continued on Thursday, with each side accusing the other of using drones to attack military targets in a major escalation of hostilities.

Pakistani officials vowed to retaliate for India’s “Operation Sindoor” strikes against alleged terrorist camps on Tuesday night, while India insisted its actions were “measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to reports that India had conducted missile strikes on Pakistan, weeks after a terrorist attack was carried out in Kashmir.

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday ordered several states, including the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region and areas close to the Pakistani border, to conduct civilian defense drills amid rising tensions with Pakistan.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday that the “perpetrators, backers, and planners” of last week’s brutal terrorist attack in Kashmir “must be brought to justice.”

The U.S. State Department on Sunday urged India and Pakistan to remain calm and seek a “responsible solution” for their tensions as border security forces from both countries traded small arms fire for the fourth night in a row.

Pakistani security forces on Monday claim they killed dozens of unidentified “militants” who were attempting to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan.