Situation Reports

Armenia received its first freight cargo shipment from Russia via Azerbaijan since 1991, transiting through Georgia and arriving with 1,050 tons of wheat at Dalarik station, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 6.

The government of Ethiopia's Afar region accused the Tigray People's Liberation Front, or TPLF, which rules the neighboring Tigray region, of launching attacks in the Afar region and capturing six villages, Addis Standard reported on Nov. 5.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed his support for Malian security forces' fight against al Qaeda affiliate Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, in a post on X dated Nov. 4, AP reported on Nov. 5.

In reference to the recent U.S.-South Korea plan to build a nuclear submarine, new Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on a TBS television program on Nov. 6, "all of the surrounding countries have nuclear submarines."

The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an air base in Syria's capital, Damascus, in a bid to facilitate a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, Reuters reported on Nov. 6.

Argentine President Javier Milei has resisted pressure to adopt a free-floating currency regime following his government's victory in legislative elections on Oct. 26, the Financial Times reported on Nov. 6.

Catalonia's pro-independence Junts party submitted amendments against 25 government bills currently before Spain's parliament, El Pais reported on Nov. 6.

Attackers using rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and other weapons boarded the Greek-owned, Malta-flagged Hellas Aphrodite southeast of the Somali port town of Eyl, ABC News reported on Nov. 6.

The Indonesian government announced that new industrial permits would not be granted to projects that plan to produce only intermediate nickel products such as nickel pig iron, matte and mixed hydroxide precipitate unless they also include plans for further in-country processing, Bloomberg reported Nov. 6.

Mediators are working to convince Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah's Israeli-controlled tunnels to lay down their arms in exchange for safe passage, as the trapped fighters threatened to undo the fragile Gaza truce, Reuters reported on Nov. 6.