Eurasia

In late April 2021, US President Joe Biden announced a withdrawal from Afghanistan. In other words, the US has been trounced in Afghanistan by its very own jihadist Frankenstein, the Taliban. The defeat of USA is covered with the ugly debris of history. The dirty war on Afghanistan was part …

Issue 291 of Al-Naba’, the weekly newspaper of the Islamic State (ISIS), published[1] on June 17, 2021, included an editorial alleging that the Taliban “apostates” are no longer a threat to “Crusader” America and noting that they have become “the security guard” that protects American interests by fighting the mujahideen …

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Sunday flew to Rome to meet with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, the first such meeting between an Israeli government official and Gulf minister since the signing of the Abraham Accords in September. On …

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi ruled out using force to stop Ethiopia’s second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Sudanese media reported on Friday. “The first filling of the dam was a stab in the back,” she conveyed in press remarks, noting that it caused a “massive …

The 27 EU leaders need to unanimously agree on restarting talks with Russia for a meeting to take place. EU leaders on Friday failed to agree on the way forward on relations with Russia, with most of them rejecting a proposal by France and Germany to hold a summit with …

We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on the impact of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of experts for their take. As with previous surveys, we approached dozens of authorities with specialized expertise …

Analysts have broadly welcomed the formation of a new cyber unit to coordinate responses among member states to cyber-incidents, though warn its effectiveness could be compromised by distrust toward EU bodies. The European Commission on Wednesday laid out plans to build a new Joint Cyber Unit to coordinate responses among …

U.S. President Joe Biden did not secure a commitment from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday to renew a U.N. cross-border aid operation into Syria, a senior administration official said ahead of an expected showdown over the issue at the United Nations Security Council next month. Washington and several …

Россия постоянно напоминает Западу о недопустимости провокаций — но никогда еще жизнь так быстро не подтверждала наши слова. Утром в среду на Московской конференции по международной безопасности глава Генштаба Валерий Герасимов заявил, что “действия кораблей США и их союзников у российских границ носят явно провокационный характер”, и привел несколько прошлогодних …

C’est l’une des premières mesures prises par Joe Biden : annuler l’interdiction édictée par Donald Trump de s’engager dans l’armée sous une “identité de genre”, celle que les transgenres peuvent faire reconnaître à l’état-civil. Les soldats qui n’auraient pas passé le cap peuvent aussi, désormais, se faire opérer aux frais …