Eurasia

While the regime talks about the return of the displaced to southern Damascus, it continues to complicate matters. The regime requires that the ownership of the house be proven with a document (called the green tabu), in addition to the fact that the house should be intact and the person …

Scientists at a Chinese military university have in the past few years been focusing on developing unmanned combat systems intended to win future wars, and their efforts are beginning to bear fruit. Recent reports show multiple types of unmanned equipment, including an amphibious combat platform and a combat vehicle with …

The United Kingdom on Thursday hit out at China’s disqualification of four pro-democracy members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo), saying that the country is in breach of a 1984 treaty promising to protect the city’s freedoms. “Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes …

Russia occupies an unusual position on the world stage. Under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has repeatedly demonstrated that it has the capacity to destabilize the international order, but not the capacity to fill the vacuum it is creating. While Russia lacks the military strength to challenge U.S. supremacy, no one—particularly …

The United States on Friday urged Japan and South Korea to speak out against China’s treatment of minority Muslims and its actions toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, despite their trading relationships with Beijing.

On November 7, 2020, Azerbaijani troops occupied the city of Shusha, which has been under the control of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 1992. Three days later, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia signed a ceasefire agreement, according to which almost half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s territory was transferred to Azerbaijan. …

An Israeli strike against Iran is extremely complicated and has always been viewed by the IDF as a last resort. In 2008, after the election that brought former US president Barack Obama to power, there were some officials in Israel who were confident that the previous president, George W. Bush, …

Iraqi forces deliver heavy blows to remnants of the ISIS terrorist group in the country, with counter-terrorism efforts by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi facilitating the process. The forces faced the Daesh terrorists in the eastern Iraqi Diyala Province, Nineveh and al-Anbar Provinces in the country’s west, …

Aleppo Province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored an armed attack by unknown assailants, believed to be Kurdish forces, on a military headquarters belonging to the “Suleiman Shah” faction in Sheikh Hadid in Afrin countryside, northwest of Aleppo, where clashes took place between the two sides, amid …

SOHR sources have monitored a spike in the death toll, following yesterday’s attack by the Islamic State on the area of Abu Fayyad dam east of Salamiyah in eastern Hama countryside. The death toll of regime soldiers and loyal militiamen rose to 21, who were killed in the ISIS’ surprise …