Eurasia

Six weeks into a major counteroffensive that Ukrainian military commanders and political leaders hope will decisively change the course of the 17-month Russian invasion, this is where things stand: About 1,500 meters of recaptured territory south of Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhzhya region; less than that south of Hulyaypole. South of …

Like his Soviet predecessors, Putin has nothing to offer the peoples of the Russian Federation except repression and Russification; and because that is so, Gasan Guseynov says, the Kremlin leader launched his war against Ukraine lest the nationalism his own policies have produced spread to the Russian Federation and threaten …

Le sommet de Vilnius marque le début de la fin pour l’OTAN et le début d’une nouvelle époque. Pourtant, la conférence se contente d’acter les inflexions. Il est donc temps d’analyser et dans cet article je souhaiterais me concentrer sur l’un des facteurs matériels à l’origine de ce nouveau monde. …

Au début de la guerre en Ukraine, j’ai souligné que le faux récit de «l’Ukraine gagne» que la propagande «occidentale» a constamment promue ne gagnerait pas la vraie guerre sur le terrain. Pendant que la guerre continuait, je l’ai dit encore et encore. • Propaganda Does Not Change The War …

A new interim report from the House Judiciary committee highlights politically motivated mission creep where we might least have expected it: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The agency went, for example, from, ensuring the digital security of American voting systems to censoring criticism of those systems. After the …

L’hybris consiste à croire qu’un récit artificiel peut, en soi, apporter la victoire. L’hybris consiste à croire qu’un récit artificiel peut, en soi, apporter la victoire. C’est un fantasme qui a balayé l’Occident – ​​surtout depuis le XVIIe siècle.

Hoping to counter Iran’s influence and end drug smuggling, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of Arab states in rehabilitating the Syrian regime. This is not only a moral but also a strategic mistake, writes Faysal Abbas Mohamad. To most Syria observers, the accelerated Saudi-led drive to rehabilitate the Assad …

Many Syrians were incensed last week at the appearance of Bashar al-Assad at the Arab League, twelve years after he was suspended due to his brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. On the day of the Arab League meeting, thousands of Syrians took to the streets in over 15 …

Despite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being welcomed back onto the international stage, all is not well at home. His country is broken into three parts, which, at best, are in a state of uneasy coexistence and at worst are stuck in a low-intensity active conflict. In the country’s northwestern Idlib …

Iraqi authorities, on Saturday, reportedly deported three Syrian Kurdish refugees to Syria after they were arrested on residency issues, disregarding concerns about their safety in their home country. The step coincides with a formal visit by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to Syria on Sunday, in which he met …