Eurasia

It was announced that Abu Risha has died after suffering from a heart attack, making him the most recent regime commander to die from health complications reports Shaam News.

Russia has said that militants in Idleb are preparing an attack in Idleb, with the intention of blaming Russia and the Syrian forces for attacking civilians writes Al-Masdar.

Despite concerns and questions in the lead-up, Slovaks pulled off the ambitious project to get most of the population tested over a single weekend. A quick mass-testing program using antigen tests offers the world a new way to fight the pandemic, says PM.

With asylum claims cut to near zero, Orban is unlikely to respond to the EU’s latest infringement procedure, the fifth launched against Hungary since 2015. On Friday, the European Commission launched a new infringement procedure against Hungary, its fifth since 2015, because of changes to the asylum system that Viktor …

Twenty-five years ago, a peace deal crafted at a United States air base in Ohio ended the Bosnian war. Today, nobody likes it, but in a politically-divided country, agreement on any reform will be tough to reach. Some want it rewritten, smoothing Bosnia’s path to membership of the European Union. …

Hungary’s Orban and Poland’s Kaczynski have openly hitched their wagons to Trump’s extreme brand of populism, but the Czechs and Slovaks would welcome more predictable policy out of Washington. Donald Trump has spent the past four years sowing division across the globe. The man hoping to replace him as US …

After a week of women’s protests that show no sign of letting up, the governing party’s poll numbers are dropping as its leaders scramble out mixed messages about the anti-abortion court ruling they were responsible for.

By combining presidential, parliamentary and local elections in 2022, President Aleksandar Vucic is trying to stop the opposition from taking Belgrade as a springboard to unseat him. But can he be stopped? President Aleksandar Vucic, whose Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, won Serbia’s parliamentary election in June, has already scheduled new …

A Bulgarian startup has found remote work in the AI industry for hundreds of refugees in the Balkans and the Middle East. Two years into the Syrian war, in 2013, Shyar Ali fled his native Aleppo, ending up in a refugee camp in Iraq where he worked as a labourer …

The Polish government has postponed the publishing of a Constitutional Tribunal verdict that effectively bans abortion as its popularity drops and splits in the coalition widen.