Eurasia

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein made the remarks ahead of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s visit to Washington on Monday. Iraq still needs support from the US-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Friday amid reports the Biden administration is planning to withdraw combat troops …

Iran’s dilapidated gas infrastructure has limited its transfers to Iraq, adding to Iraq’s own energy crisis. Iraqi parliamentary sources said on July 21 political conflicts are “preventing the investment of natural gas in the Mansouriya field in the Diyala governorate (north of Baghdad). The field’s resources are enough to meet …

Following President Kais Saied’s suspension of parliament, Tunisian troops on Monday prevented the parliament speaker from entering the building. A day after President Kais Saied staged what critics called a coup, police in Tunisia have stormed the Al Jazeera office in the capital city and Tunisian troops have surrounded the …

The Russian president’s warning comes amid tensions between London and Moscow after a British warship entered waters close to Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned that its navy is ready to carry out an “unpreventable strike” on enemy targets if it was in the country’s “national interests.” Putin …

An investigation revealed that spyware tools from Israeli-based surveillance firm NSO Group have been used to target political dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists. NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware tool is so sophisticated that it can defeat high-end encryption and security protocols of electronic devices. Prior to this week’s news reports, …

The Biden administration responded to China’s aggressive cyber operations by “naming and shaming” Beijing in an attempt to confront the growing threat posed by criminal hackers. For China, cyberattacks are an asymmetric means of confronting the West while attempting to maintain a thinly veiled veneer of plausible deniability.

Pegasus, military-grade spyware designed by the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to track terrorists, was used to hack 37 smartphones of journalists, human rights activists and politicians, according to an investigation known as “The Pegasus Project” conducted by The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations led by the journalism …

New Delhi: Afghan Taliban and their local associates are active in Pakistan’s border regions, sources told VOA as Pakistan has acknowledged that bodies of militants killed in Afghanistan arrive in Pakistan, and wounded Taliban are treated in local hospitals. In a June 27 interview with Geo News, a local Pakistani …

Основний сюжет тижня — те, що відбувається у відносинах України, Німеччини та США в галузі будівництва Північного потоку-2. Україну, грубо кажучи, кинули американські й німецькі партнери Але є подальший розвиток у цього сюжету, який може вплинути на подальший хід подій. Видання Politico написало на цьому тижні, що Білий дім вимагає …

Η συμφωνία ΗΠΑ – Γερμανίας για τον αγωγό Nord Stream 2 είχε τρεις κερδισμένους και δύο χαμένους. Στην πρώτη κατηγορία περιλαμβάνονται οι δύο χώρες που συμφώνησαν και η Ρωσία που βλέπει το σχέδιό της να προχωρά ακάθεκτο. Στη δεύτερη κατηγορία βρίσκονται η Ουκρανία και η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Χωρίς να γνωρίζουμε …