Eurasia

US fails to deter Turkey’s bombardment of Syria’s Kurdish enclave

Turkey continued to bomb infrastructure in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled region after a US F-16 shot down a drone that encroached within half a kilometer of a US base. Turkish drones conducted multiple strikes within a kilometer of a US base in northeast Syria on Thursday, causing US troops to take shelter …

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Turkey expands strikes as Fidan, Blinken discuss deconfliction, ‘terrorist threats’

The US readout of a call between the top US and Turkish diplomats stressed the two countries share a common objective of defeating terror. Turkey expanded its air campaign against Kurdish autonomous zones in Syria and Iraq on Friday, even as senior Biden administration officials held calls with their counterparts …

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Iran’s unification of the arenas campaign against Israel: Foundations and prospects

Seventy-five years since the establishment of the Jewish state, Israel has found itself facing a relentless, unprecedentedly severe political crisis with profound national security implications exacerbated by separate regional developments. Domestically, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms prompted multiple weeks-long waves of massive street protests, to the extent that former …

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Turkish Drone Downed Over Syria ‘Was 500 Meters From US Forces’

The US and Turkiye held high-level talks on Friday to de-escalate growing tension in northeast Syria between the two NATO allies. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken a day after a US fighter jet shot down a Turkish combat drone that was targeting …

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Armenia’s Pashinyan Reaffirms Recognition Of Azerbaijan’s Territory

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday, October 5 signed a declaration, reaffirming the recognition of Azerbaijan’s territory with an area of 86,600 km2, which includes Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinyan inked the document with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The statement also condemned the military operation by Azerbaijan against the …

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Moldovan President Accuses Wagner Mercenary Group Of Plotting Coup In Chisinau Earlier This Year

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said in an interview published on October 6 that the Wagner mercenary group founded by the now-deceased Yevgeny Prigozhin had planned a coup in Moldova. Sandu told the Financial Times that according to government information, the coup was planned this year by Prigozhin’s team. She also …

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After Banjska – OpEd

Milan Radoicic’s botched raid against Kosovo was a colossal blunder. Images of a Serbian gunman holding a gun on a Serbian Orthodox monk and Radoicic himself at the monastery he ran to after his people were routed by Kosovo’s police did nothing to help Belgrade and local Serbs explain why …

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Ukraine’s Attack On Sevastopol: Key Takeaways – Analysis

On 13 September 2023, the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea was attacked by Ukrainian missile strikes. As per reports, Ukraine carried out this strike using Storm Shadow cruise missiles that it acquired from the United Kingdom (UK) earlier this year. Ukraine supposedly fired ten of these missiles, of which …

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Turkey strikes Kurdish militants in Iraq again after warning of retaliation for a bombing in Ankara

Turkish warplanes launched a new round of airstrikes against Kurdish militant targets in Iraq on Wednesday hours after the foreign minister warned that Turkey would hit the militant group’s positions in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Ankara earlier this week. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, …

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Ambassador of Israeli Crimes: This is How Gilad Erdan Became a Defender of Women’s Rights in Iran

A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not exactly accurate. The misuse of the genuine struggle for women’s rights in the Arab and Muslim world is only new insofar as the increasing reliance on the tactic …

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