Ezgi Akin, Al-Monitor’s Turkey editor, discusses Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan's visit to China this week. Lebanon’s head of the military, Joseph Aoun, is heading to Washington next week, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of UN agencies and other aid organizations, and Saudi Arabia says the hajj will start on June 14.

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