Eurasia

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 …

The resolution to establish an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria, adopted by the UN General Assembly at the end of June, marks a first, promising step to uncover the fate of over 130,000 people who have disappeared since the Syrian conflict began in 2011. Most of them are …

After weeks of haranguing Russian military commanders, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on 24 June ordered his fighters to take over the garrison city of Rostov-on-Don and head for Moscow, sparking fears of civil war in Russia. Almost as quickly as it began the mutiny was quelled, with Prigozhin and …

Viruses worm their way into living cells, change the structure of the host cells from within, take over the cells’ reproductive process, use the cells’ own machinery to make copies of themselves, and conquer and kill the host. Routine antibiotics do not work while fighting viruses. You need a molecule …

Biden Should Call on Russians to Oust Putin and End Their Isolation The Wagner mercenary group’s failed mutiny last month revealed that Vladimir Putin, a leader once seen as the strongest of strongmen, may not have as tight a grip on power as previously believed. As Putin seeks to reassert …