United Arab Emirates opens embassy in Israel Andrea Polidura 14/07/21 Yair Lapid chooses Emirates for his first official visit to an Arab country Yair Lapid inaugurates Israel's embassy in the United Arab Emirates Israel and United Arab Emirates high-flying relationship
US suffers rocket attack on embassy in Iraq Andrea Polidura 08/07/21 Iraq estimates that corruption is costing it 150 million petrodollars US strikes pro-Iranian militias on the Syria-Iraq border Popular Mobilisation Forces attack Iraq's Erbil airport with drone attacks
Ethiopia begins the second filling of the Grand Renaissance Dam in the face of Sudanese and Egyptian rejection of the project Andrea Polidura 06/07/21 Renaissance Dam talks fail Ethiopia is reported to have started second filling of Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Arab League calls for UN intervention in Ethiopian dam dispute
US withdraws from Bagram, a symbol of the invasion of Afghanistan Andrea Polidura 02/07/21 Turkey offers to manage Kabul airport after NATO troop withdrawal Biden and Afghan president to meet in the face of Taliban advance Afghanistan unable to guarantee security in the face of international troop withdrawal
