Eurasia

Cyprus has been unlawfully detaining Syrians for years. With the EU’s support, it started deporting them too. For Abu Iskander Alshami the question of returning to a post-Assad Syria is fraught with uncertainty. “My situation is similar to 90% of Syrians – undecided,” he told The New Arab. We spoke …

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) declared a ceasefire with Turkey after jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called for the group’s dissolution and disarmament. Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband. It was the …

Royal Air Force surveillance flights towards Gaza keep taking place when hostages are released. The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other …

The Labour government’s increase in military spending and its extraordinary new agreement with Ukraine are platforms for the UK arms industry, which Labour sees as key to economic growth in Britain UK military spending and aid to Ukraine are effectively providing a public subsidy to British arms firms.One major MoD …

Israel struck sites in southern Syria again earlier this week, in what has become a regular occurrence since the fall of the Assad regime late last year. Forging national unity in Syria will be enough of a challenge on its own but is only further exacerbated by Israel’s repeated strikes …

The Trump administration is placing economic and diplomatic pressure on the Iraqi government to reduce its economic ties to Iran and weaken Iranian influence throughout the country. Trump officials are insisting Baghdad prevent the flow of U.S. dollars to Iran and crack down on alleged Iraqi cooperation with Iran’s illicit …

Political and democratic conditions need to be in place for disarmament process to succeed, group says The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting in an insurgency in Turkey since 1984, on Saturday unilaterally declared a ceasefire and said it would heed its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call to …

Zelensky was triggered after realizing that the Trump Administration wants to coerce him into peace with Putin and won’t be manipulated into prolonging, let alone escalating, the conflict after signing their rare earth minerals deal like he somehow expected that they would. Friday’s spectacle in the Oval Office will forever …

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La Serbie est le théâtre d’un vaste mouvement de protestations dont le terreau est légitime, particulièrement pour la jeunesse. Mais la Serbie a aussi été le laboratoire des révolutions colorées et garde encore un réseau très actif d’acteurs inféodés au soft power étasunien. Y a-t-il un risque de voir les …