Kyrgyzstan Annuls Parliamentary Election After Mass Protests
Kyrgyzstan annulled its parliamentary election results on 6 October 2020 after protesters seized government buildings amid allegations of vote buying.
Kyrgyzstan annulled its parliamentary election results on 6 October 2020 after protesters seized government buildings amid allegations of vote buying.
Major fighting erupted around Nagorno-Karabakh on 27 September 2020, rapidly expanding into the region’s deadliest conflict since the 1990s.
Belarus’s 9 August 2020 presidential election, which the opposition rejected as falsified, triggered mass protests and a sweeping security crackdown.
Deadly clashes erupted on the internationally recognized border between Armenia and Azerbaijan on 12 July 2020, raising fears of a wider regional conflict.
The United States and the Taliban signed an agreement linking foreign-troop withdrawal to security commitments and proposed Afghan negotiations.
A far-right extremist murdered nine people at two venues in Hanau, Germany, on 19 February 2020 before killing his mother and himself.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was shot down shortly after leaving Tehran on 8 January 2020, killing all 176 people aboard and prompting a continuing international accountability effort.
Explosions damaged two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, sharply increasing US-Iran tensions.