Eurasia

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan continue to trade accusations on the failure of the Nile dam talks, in what some say is an attempt to draw the attention of the new US administration into the regional file.

Myths and falsehoods abound in Turkish and Arab press about Turkey’s regional ventures, nourishing overblown elations and fears. Turkey’s regional ventures, spurred by Ottoman nostalgia, have earned it a hostile Arab front led by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Though Turkey’s ambitions have hardly translated into a …

Politician claims that Russia has taken over the Syrian peace process, according to North Press. Majid Ibrahim, a politician, told North Press on Sunday that the Russian presence in Syria has turned the Geneva peace process into the Astana peace process.

The Syrian National Coalition has claimed that the Syrian regime and its allies are behind recent bombings in northern regions of Aleppo, according to Baladi News. The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has accused the Syrian regime, Iran, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of being behind the bombings that hit …

Russian and Turkish forces have conducted their 42nd joint patrol around the Kobani region in northern Syria, reports North Press. On Monday, Russian military police conducted a joint patrol with Turkish forces in the western countryside of Kobani, the 42nd joint patrol between the two forces in the Kobani region.

Without Moscow’s participation, the treaty loses its rationale. NATO members could start conducting flights over each other’s territory or shift their flight quotas to non-NATO state parties, but in both cases, the treaty would be reduced to a symbolic function.

Laschet’s personal preferences, if they even exist, will have to contend with a number of other factors shaping German foreign policy. Germany’s ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has chosen a new leader: Armin Laschet, the prime minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This fall, he will most …

The Biden administration should consider whether the benefits to United States and allied security of limiting all nuclear weapons, including non-strategic nuclear arms, would justify accepting some constraints on missile defense.

Iraq announced Jan. 28 that its US-trained Counterterrorism Services in coordination with national intelligence had conducted an operation leading to the killing of the commander of Islamic State remnants in the country, in an “insurgent-infested” valley of the oil-rich, disputed southern Kirkuk province.

Israeli intelligence warned a prominent Hamas leader in the West Bank against running in the Palestinian elections. The Israeli intelligence summoned Jan. 24 Omar al-Barghouti, a 67-year-old leader in the Hamas movement, from the village of Kober, north of Ramallah, and warned him against running in the upcoming Palestinian elections.