Eurasia

During the turbulent 20th Century, many Kosovo Albanians looked at Albania as a land of hope and promise. Then they visited.In the summer of 1991, just as Yugoslavia was beginning to unravel, 13-year-old Albian Ismaili travelled with his family from their home in Kosovo to Albania to visit his mother’s …

Viktor Orban, relishing the EU presidency and buoyed by Trump’s position in the polls, is preparing to give another of his often-controversial speeches in the Romanian town on Saturday. Will he tone it down this year? The stage is set in Baile Tusnad for the grand event – the Romanian …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the US Congress on July 24.[1] Netanyahu described his vision for “a demilitarized and deradicalized” post-war Gaza Strip but did not offer details about how to achieve this vision.[2] Netanyahu further said that Israeli would need to ”retain overriding security …

Aware that the window of opportunity for destabilizing their country might soon close, the Georgian Legion might desperately try to carry out a high-profile assassination attempt in the near future, even if it isn’t against the ruling party’s founder but someone else like the Prime Minister and they use a …

The 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held in Astana, Kazakhstan, was an important gathering that brought together leaders from various countries to discuss regional cooperation and security issues, underscoring the SCO’s role in addressing these critical matters. Kazakhstan hosted the …

Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of …

At 7:56 AM on October 7, 2023, Ronit Sultan, the daughter of Argentine immigrants, texted her daughter-in-law to “take care of yourself” as rockets from Gaza flew overhead. Ten minutes later, Ronit texted a friend that Hamas terrorists were “trying to get in” to her house in Kibbutz Holit, one …

Affirming the right of the Palestinian people to resist Israeli occupation, representatives of 14 Palestinian factions have signed an agreement to end their divisions and form a temporary government of national unity The Beijing Declaration on Ending Division and Strengthening Palestinian National Unity was signed on Tuesday following talks in …

Bislim Zyrapi, former Chief of KLA General Staff, after testifying for three weeks at the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-accused, admitted several prosecution points but also confirmed some of the defence’s stances. n an unprecedented three-week-long public testimony at the trial for war …

This incident shows the lengths to which Ukraine and the EU are going to keep those two in line after they united to form an anti-war bloc in the heart of Europe. Ukraine’s decision last month to stop the transit of Russian oil from Lukoil across its territory has hit …