Eurasia

Serbia’s power-hungry leader will be following the upcoming election of the next Patriarch closely – but the complex electoral system means there’s no guarantee he will get the candidate of his choice.

The mass protests by students against a politically appointed rector in an Istanbul university have turned into a broader battle for democracy and the rights that the government has taken away.

In Skenderaj/Srbica, hometown of several Kosovo Liberation Army commanders including ex-President Hashim Thaci, who is awaiting trial in The Hague for war crimes, tensions have risen amid a strong opposition challenge in the election campaign.

Court records in Bosnia reveal that prominent members of Serb nationalist Chetnik organisations have been charged with war crimes, while the Bosnian Security Ministry has warned that such groups are extremists who could pose a security risk.

Exasperation with Croatia’s failure to create an independent border-monitoring mechanism to investigate allegations of migrant rights abuses is growing – something which could harm the country’s bid to join the passport-free Schengen zone.

SOHR activists say that unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) today on the Al-Jafra field road in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour.

Turkish forces stationed at the research base in northern Aleppo countryside, shelled the village of Maranaz and the perimeter of Tel Rifa’at in areas held by Kurdish forces in Aleppo countryside.

Unidentified gunmen attacked today the security square area of regime forces in the city of Nawa, west of Daraa, using RPGs, shells and bombs in addition to light machine guns, leaving injuries among regime forces, amid reports of fatalities.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored this evening the entry of a Russian military column into the city of Manbij in eastern Aleppo countryside. The column consists of eight trucks carrying weapons and ammunition, in addition to several Russian armoured vehicles. The column headed to the Russian base …

The Novosibirsk Aviation Plant Chkalov (NAZ) builds three more prototypes of the heavy drone S-70 Okhotnik, BulgarianMilitary.com has learned, citing a source from the military-industrial complex and the Russian media RIA Novosti.