World roundup: December 18 2020

Stories from Iran, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and more

Programming note: It’s been a bit of a week around here so the second/final part of our “Anarchy at Samarra” podcast will not be available today as planned. Instead I’m hoping we’ll have what I think will be our first ever weekend podcast drop, or failing that it will be out early next week. I apologize for the delay. That will be our final podcast of 2…