Eurasia

The US Treasury lifted most sanctions on Syria on May 23. The US Treasury issued Syria General License (GL) 25 to provide “immediate sanctions relief” to Syria in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s May 13 order to lift all sanctions on Syria.[i] The removal of sanctions will allow the …

The Supreme Leader of Iran reiterated his call for the Muslim world to mobilize to stop“Israel’s crimes in the Gaza Strip” and declared that the Palestinian issue is the most importantin the Islamic world. The Iranian foreign minister noted that, at this stage, there are no relations between Iran andSyria, …

U.S. President Donald Trump may have torn up the previous nuclear deal between the United States and Iran during his first term in office, but he now seems serious about signing a new one. Washington has not only held several rounds of talks with the Iranians, but also dropped many …

Dodik’s refusal to abide by the court ruling, his renewed threats of secession and further severing of ties with the central state have created the worst crisis in Bosnia since the war, when some 100,000 people died. Bosniak Munira Dzabija, originally from Sarajevo, regularly visits the village of Omacina, where …

On March 12, employees of Ukrainian House (Ukrainski Dom), the main NGO representing Ukrainians in Poland, received a bizarre email. The municipality of Bydgoszcz, in northern Poland, was writing back about Ukrainian House’s “formal request” to organise an election rally in favour of Rafal Trzaskowski, the presidential candidate of the …

In recent months, there has been much talk about the reanimation of domestic politics in Ukraine and the burgeoning political competition between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and ex-commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny. Now Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, has also emerged as a figure enjoying significant popular support, with …

Mon père, après avoir lu «La trahison des clercs» de Julien Benda, a offert ce livre paru en 1927 à ses six enfants. Mon père était généreux, mais il avait une façon d’offrir si discrète, si embarrassée, qu’on attachait peu de valeur à ses cadeaux. Et donc j’ai lu le …

A case that the Justice Department has described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history culminated on Wednesday with businessman Douglas Edelman pleading guilty in a Washington courtroom to conspiracy and making false statements to U.S. authorities, along with several other criminal charges. For nearly two …

Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, discussed Iran potentially building and detonating a nuclear weapon in a May 26, 2025 interview on SNN.ir (Iran). He said that he has not yet received orders to build a nuclear bomb – but if he does, he will …

In a May 26, 2025 interview with the Didbaniran website, Ahmad Bakhshayish Ardastani, a member of the Iranian Majlis National Security And Foreign Policy Committee, detailed the main points of an Omani mediation offer proposed to Iran on May 23, as part of Oman’s mediation efforts in the U.S.-Iran nuclear …