Eurasia

Hezbollah behind roadside bomb in Israel last month, Israeli official says

Lebanon’s Hezbollah was behind a rare roadside bomb attack last month that wounded a motorist in northern Israel, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on Friday. Israel’s military said that security forces had killed a man carrying an explosive belt after he apparently crossed from Lebanon into Israel and …

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Sudan’s Generals Are Dragging the Country Toward Disaster

Only Civilian Leaders Can Forge a Path to Peace Only Civilian Leaders Can Forge a Path to Peace Less than five years into its halting journey toward democracy, Sudan is spiraling toward protracted civil war. On April 15, fighting erupted between the country’s two main security organs, the army and …

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Limits And Challenges To China-Russia Cooperation In Eurasia – OpEd

For a number of years, China and Russia have worked together in the Eurasian area, concentrating on a variety of economic, political, and strategic challenges. In reaction to a changed geopolitical environment in which both nations have come under greater pressure from the United States and its allies, the two …

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Putin Hardly Can Offer Kazakh Leadership Anything Other Than Joining Him And Lukashenko In Anti-Western Trenches – Analysis

The Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper, in an article posted on its website on 24 April 2023, said: “The European Union has been working on plans for strengthening its ties with Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, and Kazakhstan, countries that are amicable with Russia, Politico reports. According to the media outlet, the EU’s …

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Will Sub-Saharan Africa Ultimately Surpass India And China In Population Growth? – Analysis

India and China, the world’s two most populous nations with over 1.4 billion people each, are expected to be outranked by sub-Saharan Africa in the 2030s. A new analysis by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) released last week indicates that while India’s population will soon eclipse China’s, its growth …

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John Pilger: The Coming War (Time To Speak Up) – OpEd

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric …

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Will there be a big political storm in Serbia after the meeting between Vučić and Kurti in Brussels?

Instead of each subsequent meeting of the highest officials of Serbia and Kosovo being more and more simple and distracted from the danger that ordinary people, citizens of Kosovo, currently of Serbian nationality, are safer and removed from the danger to life and bare existence, despite the mutual consent to …

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ISIS is back in the open in southern Syria

On Oct. 31, local units previously affiliated with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched a large-scale military operation against the al-Hafo-Harfoush group in the southern Syrian city of Daraa al-Balad. The units responsible for carrying out the operation in the Tariq al-Sad and al-Mukhayyam neighborhoods had chosen to remain in …

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ISIS beats back Wagner offensive in central Syria

It has been an accepted fact that ISIS ceased being a territory-controlling entity in Syria after its March 2019 defeat in the town of Baghouz. Yet it is perhaps time to reevaluate this perspective on the group and its insurgent trajectory in the country. While recent massacres of civilians in …

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KFOR announced the request for the opening of the bridge over the Ibar between North and South Mitrovica

Regarding the initiative to open the main bridge on the Ibar connecting the municipalities of North and South Mitrovica, KFOR says that this issue must be resolved through political dialogue. “The reopening of the bridge is an issue that must be resolved through political dialogue. The NATO mission, KFOR, continues …

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