Eurasia

Les quais africains, jadis simples zones d’embarquement du pillage colonial, deviennent les points cardinaux d’un basculement historique : celui du transfert du centre de gravité du monde vers le Sud global. Dans les vagues de la mer Rouge et de l’océan Indien s’écrit désormais le destin multipolaire du XXIe siècle. …

Alors que le front continue de subir la poussée russe dans le Donbass et au Nord, la stratégie occidentale se confirme et se précise.Analyse de la situation ennemieLe théâtre trumpiste Il existe deux méthodes pour dissimuler une intention et perturber l’analyse adverse ; la première consiste à jeter un voile …

The Kurdish militant group is laying down its weapons. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is considering expanding minority rights. But some people say they cannot forgive and forget… It had been five years since Dilber Oyunlu had seen her daughter, Sinda. Then one day in July, she appeared on television. Ms …

Three Syrian cargo vessels have been accused of trafficking in grain stolen from Russian-occupied Ukraine. Newly uncovered documents link the Seychelles company behind them to an apparent front for the regime of deposed dictator Bashar Al-Assad. On a clear, cool day in early January, the red deck of a cargo …

Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels. Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal. Those …

Turkey was among the first to recognise Kosovo in 2008 and has since backed its efforts for wider international recognition. During the early 2010s, frequent visits between then prime minister Hashim Thaci and Erdogan deepened ties, while Turkish companies secured major stakes in Kosovo’s economy: from the airport and electricity …

Giannis Kafkas had dreams of making it as a photographer until he was bashed in the back of the head. Fourteen years ago, Greece was in the throes of a sovereign debt crisis that was threatening to bring down the euro-zone. On May 11, 2011, Kafkas joined tens of thousands …

Prosecutors in Kosovo have shelved an investigation based on an internal audit at the Kosovo intelligence agency that identified nearly two million euros of alleged undocumented spending under three former directors, BIRN has found. An internal audit at Kosovo’s state intelligence agency, AKI, identified undocumented spending of some two million …

It was a cold and windy day in January this year when the Besart and the Aya Zanoubya approached the port of Porto Romano near Durres on Albania’s Adriatic coast, the latter being towed due to an electrical failure that had supposedly prevented it from continuing to its stated destination. …

Alleged espionage by the Hungarian intelligence services in Brussels has left both von der Leyen and Viktor Orban in a difficult position, meaning it may be, ironically, in their mutual interest to cooperate. The EU and its member states have been shocked, though not entirely surprised, by a reported Hungarian …