Eurasia Press & News
When the Ukrainian navy command ship was close enough to Russia’s shore to get the country’s state television channels, Capt. Oleksandr Hryhorevskyi switched on the news and wondered: Why all the fuss about his rusty old boat? The appearance of his more-than-50-year-old vessel — aptly named Donbas, for the eastern …
Read More »U.S. Considers Warning Ukraine of a Russian Invasion in Real-Time
U.S. officials say intelligence sharing is essential to the Ukrainian government’s survival, even as they try to avoid escalating the situation. The Pentagon is working on a plan to provide Ukraine with battlefield intelligence that could help the country more quickly respond to a possible Russian invasion, senior administration officials …
Read More »Training Civilians, Ukraine Nurtures a Resistance in Waiting
Eastern European nations have drawn a lesson from America’s wars of the last decades: Insurgency works. Ukraine’s training of volunteers has become a factor in the standoff with Russia. In a pine forest not far from Ukraine’s capital, a mock battle raged. Commanders barked orders. Figures in camouflage huddled behind …
Read More »Security talks with US, NATO to start next month, Russian foreign minister says
Russian and U.S. negotiators will sit down for talks early next year to discuss Moscow’s demand for Western guarantees precluding NATO’s expansion to Ukraine, Russia’s top diplomat said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia in January will also start separate talks with NATO to discuss the issue, adding …
Read More »Turkey nabs 9 Daesh suspects in counterterrorism raids
Turkish police detained at least nine foreign nationals over their links to the Daesh terrorist group in Istanbul, security sources said Saturday. Anti-terror police squads launched an operation to nab the suspects, believed to be a part of groups planning attacks on behalf of Daesh, said the sources, who requested …
Read More »TERROR TOP 20 World’s 20 most dangerous extremists revealed — including UK-based Anjem Choudary and Tommy Robinson
THE world’s 20 most dangerous extremists have been revealed — including UK-based Anjem Choudary and Tommy Robinson. The list is compiled by experts who warn our nation has never been at such a heightened risk of a terror attack. Chiefs of rival terror organisations such as the Taliban and IS …
Read More »Kurdish leaders say poverty ‘biggest threat’ as it drives Syrians into arms of Islamic State
Offers of money by the Islamic State to join its ranks prove “irresistible” to those hit hard by Syria’s collapsed economy. A man being led by security guards shuffles into an interrogation cell in a military prison in the Kurdish-administered city of Hasakah in northeastern Syria. His hands are cuffed, …
Read More »Yemeni rebel attack on southern Saudi Arabia kills 2 people
A Yemeni rebel attack on Saudi Arabia’s southern border town of Jizan killed two people and wounded seven more late Friday, Saudi state-run media reported. Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a projectile that killed a Saudi citizen and Yemeni resident in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan, the official Saudi Press …
Read More »Turkey freezes assets of 770 people for alleged terror links
Turkey froze the assets of 770 Turkish nationals and a Chicago-based foundation, according to a decision published Friday in the country’s official gazette. The list of targets includes 454 people with alleged links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States. The Turkish government accuses Gulen and …
Read More »Unavoidability Of Sino-American Rift: History Of Strategic Decoupling – Analysis
Americans performed three very different policies on the People’s Republic: From a total negation (and the Mao-time mutual annihilation assurances), to Nixon’s sudden cohabitation. Finally, a Copernican-turn: the US spotted no real ideological differences between them and the post-Deng China. This signalled a ‘new opening’: West imagined China’s coastal areas …
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