Eurasia

Populist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has withdrawn from Iraq’s October elections, removing his support for the government. The head of Iraq’s Sadrist movement, populist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, announced July 15 that he will not participate in the early elections scheduled for Oct. 10. Soon after, hundreds of Sadrists gathered in various …

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is tightening the noose on the jihadi Jundallah group and asking it to join it or leave Idlib, in what observers described as an attempt on the part of HTS to get rid of non-Syrian fighters. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, …

Erdoğan Kurban Bayramı vesilesi ile KKTC’ye bir ziyaret gerçekleştireceğini açıkladı. Ziyaret çerçevesinde mecliste bir konuşma yapacak olan Erdoğan’ın konuşması esnasında Kıbrıs’la ilgili önemli müjdeler vermesi bekleniyor. Müjdenin içeriği şimdilik kamuoyu tarafından bilinmiyor. Yorumcuların bir kısmı müjdenin Maraş’la ilgili olacağını söylüyor. Diğer taraftan Azerbaycan yetkilileri ile KKTC yetkilileri arasında üst düzey …

Σε αμηχανία βρίσκεται ο Πρόεδρος Αναστασιάδης σε ό,τι αφορά τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις στο Κυπριακό, περιμένοντας τις κινήσεις του Ταγίπ Ερντογάν στις 20 Ιουλίου για τα Βαρώσια. Δυστυχώς, για τον τόπο και τον λαό μας, πληρώνουμε τις παλινδρομήσεις και την αδράνεια του Προέδρου Αναστασιάδη και τους ολέθριους χειρισμούς του τα τελευταία …

Afghan Taliban and their local associates are active in Pakistan’s border regions, local 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 channel, …

Thousands of Cubans have taken to the streets this week to organize some of the largest protests seen in the country in decades. Videos circulating on social media show Cuban security forces violently beating protesters before detaining them and hauling them off to prison. Demonstrators rallied against declining living conditions, …

Forty years after the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the six monarchies that constitute the grouping are more divided than ever on key issues. The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council differ over how to counter the threat from Iran—the same threat that prompted the GCC’s initial formation. U.S. …

While Russia has not been considered a key military power in Africa since the Cold War, it is quickly becoming a preeminent military force in central Africa. Central African Republic (CAR) has become the country most dependent on Russian military support in its battle against anti-government rebels. The United Nations …

Washington and Tehran have been engaged in indirect negotiations in Vienna since April to return to the JCPOA, the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers reached in 2015. Iran is trying to avoid responsibility for not returning to its nuclear deal with world powers, the US State Department said …

After the Second Karabakh War, the tripartite ceasefire agreement on November 10, 2020, opens a possibility for Iran to become connected to the southern railway network in the South Caucasus. As a result of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, an important part of the South Caucasus Railway, which passed through the …