Immigration advocates hailed Biden’s decision, but said undoing the effects of the travel ban won’t happen overnight. With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden has ended his predecessor’s ban on travelers entering the United States from several Middle Eastern and African nations, fulfilling a campaign pledge to dismantle …
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High-Ranking Regime Army Officers Killed in Murky Circumstances Shaam News Network
The officer is the ninth to die in mysterious circumstances in the past few days, Shaam Network says Pro-regime pages announced the death of a brigadier general in the regime’s army, under mysterious circumstances unrevealed by the regime’s media. The brigadier general is the ninth officer to be killed during …
Read More »Assassination Attempt Targets the son of “Russia’s man”
Unknown gunmen have opened fire on Bassel Haswani, the son of prominent business man George Haswani, who was recently implicated in the purchase of the ammonium nitrate that exploded at Beirut port reports Alhurra.
Read More »Attack Targets KNC
A building in Ayn al-Arab belonging to the Kurdish National Council was attacked by unknown individuals, causing severe damage to the building reports SY-24.
Read More »Delays Continue to Dog Bosnian Counter-Terrorism Policy
Bosnia lags behind the rest of the Western Balkans in terms of its strategy on countering terrorism, particularly how to handle fighters returning from foreign wars. Trailing its Western Balkan peers, Bosnia has yet to prepare a report on the implementation of its five-year counter-terrorism strategy, which expired in late …
Read More »Moldova in 2021: Political and Economic Turbulence Could Worsen Emigration
The negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic and internal political fights could paralyze the country next year – and encourage even more people to leave, experts warn.
Read More »Far-Right Extremism in Slovakia: Hate, Guns and Friends from Russia
Far-right extremism in Slovakia is not limited to Marian Kotleba, though the neofascist leader has, more than anyone else, helped radicalisation go mainstream. Carrying a brown oak coffin and chanting slogans like “Matovic to jail”, “Matovic is a virus” and “We won’t be vaccinated!”, hundreds of protesters led by Marian …
Read More »Under Biden, Balkans to Remain Flashpoint in US-Russia Relations
The United States under Joe Biden must resist turning a blind eye to Russia’s provocations in Kosovo and across in the Balkans in exchange for deals elsewhere.
Read More »Orban Courts New Enablers in Germany for Post-Merkel Era
Hungary’s prime minister may be pleased the centrist Armin Laschet will be the next leader of the CDU, though he is going to find a much tougher crowd in Germany in the post-Merkel era.
Read More »Egypt’s Nubians get second chance at requesting compensation
On the occasion of the anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the Aswan dam, the Egyptian state opened the door to the second phase of the compensation paid for the Nubians who were displaced from their lands.
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