Eurasia

Russia has launched its third major mobilization wave in anticipation of its upcoming spring/summer campaign to take more land in Ukraine. On March 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to begin the next conscription drive, setting the target at 150,000 new inductees slated for military service. This came …

The leader of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yehya al-Sinwar, has recently inspected areas that saw clashes between Hamas and Israeli forces, a senior official in the movement told the Qatar-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper. Al-Sinwar has been leading the movement in the field and reports about …

Introduction Since Iran’s April 14, 2024 drone and missile attack on Israel, named “True Promise,” by the Iranian regime, and against the backdrop of statements by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi that Iran is “weeks rather than months” away from having enough enriched uranium to develop …

In an interview with business newspaper The Marker about Israel’s economy in 2012, Benjamin Netanyahu boasted, in what has since become a kind of idiomatic phrase, that “if you leave out the Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox, [Israel’s] in great shape.” Today, the prime minister seems to be refining that tagline …

When U.S. Patriots shot down an Iranian missile over Erbil on April 15, Kurds wondered why such defenses weren’t activated when they were attacked. Late in the night of April 13, Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, was shaken by the sound of a Patriot missile battery shooting down …

April 24, 2024, marked 200 days since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. On the occasion, Yemen’s Ansar Allah Houthi movement issued statement reaffirming its support for Palestinians and calling for further escalation against Israel. Houthi Political Bureau Calls For Further Maritime Escalation To Confront “Unparalleled Level Of Jewish Hatred …

In his March 22, 2024 column in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Iranian journalist and author Amir Taheri, who resides in the U.S., came out strongly against the solidarity with Hamas expressed around the world after the October 7 attack on Isael, and against the calls to end the Gaza …

In a video posed on Ahmed Alshalfi on X (Twitter) on April 22, 2024, Qatar representative to the Arab Parliament, Shura Council Member Essa bin Ahmad Al-Nassr, said there can be no peace with the “Zionist entity.” He explained that the Zionists’ faith condones deception, the violation of agreements, and …

To Israelis, October 7, 2023, is the worst day in their country’s 75-year history. Never before have so many of them been massacred and taken hostage on a single day. Thousands of heavily armed Hamas fighters managed to break through the Gaza Strip’s fortified border and into Israel, rampaging unimpeded …

Il y a quelque chose de fascinant mais aussi d’effrayant dans le «clair obscur» de ces élections européennes (dans la plupart des élections d’ailleurs à commencer par la présidentielle des États-Unis). Entre, peu à peu, la conscience qui grandit de la volonté de l’occident de mener une guerre pour la …