Situation Reports

Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) conducted a suicide bombing that killed prominent senior Taliban cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani in Kabul, Afghanistan, Reuters reported Aug. 11.

A group of property investors in China's eastern city of Hefei wrote a letter to the government asking that Beijing crack down on homebuyers who are threatening to withhold mortgage payments, Reuters reported Aug. 12.

Three days after polls closed in Kenya's Aug. 9 general elections, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC, the official vote-counting body) tallied approximately 2% of the results, The Star reported Aug. 12.

South African police arrested 22 suspects for their alleged role in the July 2021 riots and unrest in which 350 people died, Bloomberg reported Aug. 12.

Five Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) with a combined market cap of nearly $320 billion, all of which the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission deems "national-level Chinese [SOEs]," announced their plans to delist from U.S. stock exchanges, Bloomberg reported Aug. 12.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that the country's authorities had successfully completed the third filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Standard reported Aug. 12.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said it carried out an operation on Aug. 8 against a Turkish military vehicle inside Turkey, killing 23 Turkish soldiers, in retaliation for a drone attack, Kurdistan 24 reported Aug. 11.

In former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party primary elections, party voters placed six Netanyahu loyalists in the top 10 spots to serve on the party's slate for the upcoming Nov. 1 national elections, The Times of Israel reported Aug. 11.

An unnamed senior Iranian official speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency said the EU-proposed draft text to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal "can be acceptable if they provide Iran with assurance on the issues of safeguards, sanctions and guarantees," Reuters reported Aug. 12.

Azerbaijan completed its section of the alternative road between Armenia and the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region that bypasses the so-called Lachin Corridor, as mandated by the countries' 2020 cease-fire agreement, Interfax reported Aug. 11.