Briefing Room 3.21.2026: Serbia, Nigeria, Kazakh/Kyrgyzstan.

Welcome back to the briefing room, the show that our front steam started, actually because it was ordered by a doctor prescribing our writers once-weekly respite to think about something beside the war in Iran.

Rest assured once this episode has finished, our team will be chained up to the Iran desk until next Saturday, but I was told that I either allow them to write this, or I've got to let them out for walks around the neighborhood, and we can't be having that, can we? So you'll never escape.

So we'll start off in Serbia, then we're heads in Nigeria, where rival jardust insurgencies are exploiting each other's actions to make themselves even more dangerous than they otherwise were, but finally we'll make a rare visit to Central Asia, where we 've got not one but two stories from countries whose names start with a K and end with a Stan.