Eurasia

For much of the world, the rapidly expanding coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis in generations. Not so for terrorists, traffickers, and militant groups.

On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity pursuant to Executive Order 13224. At the same time, also pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, the State Department designated three of the group’s leaders, Stanislav Anataolyevich Vorobyev, …

A decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC producers like Russia to temporarily end a price war and cut production amounts to a time-out rather than an end to what is likely to erupt at some point in the future as a tripartite war.

The coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world will turn global economic growth “sharply negative” in 2020, triggering the worst fallout since the 1930s Great Depression, with only a partial recovery seen in 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

Since Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008 and annexation of Crimea in 2014, the United States has spent billions on Black Sea security. Assistance has been insufficient in real terms however, given Russia’s continued aggression and land grabs. US support for the Black Sea and the Middle East has been …

Alors même que le bilan humain du Covid-19 augmente, le monde devrait se préparer aux attaques de l’EI, qui pense pouvoir exploiter le chaos causé par la propagation du virus. La coopération internationale, que l’EI espère amoindrie par le virus, devra être à la hauteur d’une menace jihadiste permanente.

The global chemical-weapons watchdog has for the first time directly blamed the Syrian government for three chlorine and sarin nerve-gas bomb attacks in late March 2017 on the central town of Lataminah.

Iraqi President Barham Saleh has officially tasked prime minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi with forming a government after the intelligence chief received the endorsement of the majority of the country’s top political figures.

The land border between China and Russia has been closed, leaving an unknown number of Chinese nationals stranded on the Russian side of the border, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.

A ceasefire declaration by Saudi Arabia in war-shattered Yemen that was due to come into effect on Thursday has been welcomed by United Nations chief António Guterres as a way to promote peace and slow the advance of COVID-19.