Eurasia

Nuri Gökhan Bozkır, a former major who served in an elite force attached to the Special Forces Command (ÖKK) in the Turkish military before he was dishonorably discharged in 2007, on Tuesday explained in an interview with Ukrainian news website Strana the details of Turkey’s illegal arms deliveries to Syria, …

Turkey’s plans to populate the territories of Nagorno Karabakh, which have come under the Azerbaijani control, with Syrians will not be accepted by both Russia and Iran. Russia would not allow it or will take anti-terrorist measures later, Expert on Turkish studies Ruben Melkonyan told Armenpress, commenting on the foreign …

Twenty-nine people were killed Tuesday by explosives in three separate incidents in parts of north Syria along the border with Turkey, a war monitor said. There was no immediate link between the two car bombings near Al-Bab and in Afrin that killed a total of eight people, or the incident …

The Azerbaijani army has entered the Kelbecer area, another territory lost by Armenian forces under a truce that ended bloody fighting over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said on Wednesday.

Brussels, like many other countries in Europe, follows the EU’s policy of banning Hezbollah’s military arm and not its political branch. Belgium must act to ban Hezbollah in its entirety, lawmaker Michael Freilich said, submitting a bill to that effect this week.

Hamas is strongly opposed to security coordination with Israel and considers it a form of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy.” The Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to restore its relations with Israel has scuttled efforts to end the long-standing dispute between the Palestinian ruling Fatah faction and Hamas.

The suspect was evacuated to Hadassah-University Medical Center and died from his injuries after failed resuscitation efforts. A ramming attack was foiled on Wednesday afternoon at the az-Za’ayyem checkpoint near Jerusalem. The attacker died a couple of hours later, following failed resuscitation efforts at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem.

With nearly 12 million cases and a quarter million deaths in the US so far (over 55 million cases and 1.3 million deaths world-wide), the COVID 19 pandemic is ravaging civilization. The disease is on track to be the deadliest epidemic since 1918.

The government in England has ordered schools not to use resources and materials from organizations that have expressed any desire to end capitalism. There are several different ways one can think about this, but I believe the best may be to envision a government ordering its teachers to never inform …

Donald Trump is making sure that President-elect Joe Biden has great difficulty getting out of the starting gate in January. On the domestic front, the chief of the General Services Administration, Emily Murphy, is refusing to allow the start of the transition in the short period between the election in …