| 1. | New Zealand troops to leave Afghanistan after 20-year deployment
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/17/last-new-zealand-troops-to-leave-afghanistan-in-may |
| 2. | Afghanistan: 65 media workers, rights defenders killed since 2018
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/02/1084702 |
| 3. | Stay or Go? Biden, Long a Critic of Afghan Deployments, Faces a Deadline
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/politics/biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-taliban.html |
| 4. | NATO will leave Afghanistan when ‘time is right’: Stoltenberg
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/15/nato-will-leave-afghanistan-when-time-is-right-stoltenberg |
| 5. | Taliban call on US to honour withdrawal deal
https://www.dawn.com/news/1607816/taliban-call-on-us-to-honour-withdrawal-deal |
| 6. | Iran and Qatar discuss region, nuclear deal in high-level talks
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/15/iran-qatar-discuss-region-nuclear-deal-in-high-level-talks |
| 7. | US ‘energising’ talks to end Yemen war: Special envoy
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/us-in-back-channel-talks-to-end-yemen-war-special-envoy |
| 8. | Israel may not be part of strategy if US returns to nuclear deal
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/israel-may-halt-future-cooperation-if-us-returns-to-nuclear-deal |
| 9. | Erdoğan vows to expand fight against PKK after deaths of 13 hostages
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/erdogan-vows-to-expand-fight-against-pkk-after-deaths-of-13-hostages |
| 10. | Turkey catches New Zealanders linked to Isis entering from Syria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/15/turkey-catches-new-zealanders-linked-to-isis-entering-from-syria |
| 11. | Israeli air force holds ‘surprise’ drill near Lebanon border
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/15/israeli-air-force-holds-surprise-combat-drill-along-border |
| 12. | Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees more likely to die of virus – latest updates
https://www.trtworld.com/life/lebanon-s-palestinian-refugees-more-likely-to-die-of-virus-latest-updates-44201 |
| 13. | UN condemns ‘reckless’ Iraq rocket attack as US weighs response
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/17/un-slams-reckless-iraq-rocket-attack-as-us-vows-response |
| 14. | ‘I’m a fighter’: first female, African head of WTO ready for battle
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/15/wto-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-first-african-first-woman-new-head |
| 15. | CAR ‘militia leaders’ plead not guilty to war crimes at ICC trial
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/car-militia-leaders-plead-not-guilty-to-war-crimes-at-icc-trial |
| 16. | France’s Macron rules out immediate troop drawdown from Sahel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/macron-rules-out-withdrawing-troops-from-sahel-region |
| 17. | Libya’s new interim leader holds talks in Benghazi
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/12/libyas-new-interim-leader-arrives-in-benghazi |
| 18. | More than half of South Africans have been infected with Covid, estimates Discovery’s CEO
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/business/half-of-south-africa-infected-by-covd-says-discovery-ceo-2021-2 |
| 19. | Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict and the battle to control information
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/ethiopias-tigray-conflict-and-the-battle-to-control-information |
| 20. | South Africa offers its AstraZeneca jabs to African Union
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/south-africa-offers-its-astrazeneca-jabs-to-african-union-3293954 |
| 21. | Morocco Attends G5 Summit, Commits to Regional Defense
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/02/335102/morocco-attends-g5-summit-commits-to-regional-defense/ |
| 22. | Nigeria’s Interswitch eyes Kenya and Uganda to extend its payments services
https://www.theafricareport.com/66218/nigerias-interswitch-eyes-kenya-and-uganda-to-extend-its-payments-services/ |
| 23. | Western Sahara: What’s at stake for Joe Biden?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/11/western-sahara-whats-at-stake-for-joe-biden |
