World update: July 31 2019

Stories from Iran, Afghanistan, and more

Remember, I’ll be traveling for the next few days so this will be our last update until Tuesday. This also means we won’t be kicking off our Lebanese Civil War podcast series until next week at the earliest. I had hoped to start this week despite the shortened week, but just haven’t had any time to record.

MIDDLE EAST

SYRIA

For at least a couple of years n…