Eurasia

While Tatevik Khachatrian was forced to leave everything behind one year ago, Vasila Mammadova was hopeful that, for the first time in 30 years, there was a chance she might get everything back. On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan launched an offensive to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory it had lost to …

Over the past two days, the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has been targeted with an attack as sophisticated and audacious as it is brutal, with the devices in their own pockets turned into deadly weapons. On Tuesday, hundreds of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members and associates in Lebanon …

Iran has ulterior motives for opposing the Zangezur Corridor. Iran’s continued opposition to the Zangezur Corridor, which was earlier analyzed here and here, is predicated on the assumption that Armenia is very important to its economic and national security. The thinking goes that they’d be harmed if Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye …

This paper presents a reading of the results of the recent Jordanian parliamentary elections in relation to the partisan aspect, and presents a set of scenarios for the parliamentary scene of the twentieth council on the one hand, and for the path of political modernization on the other hand. Executive …

In today’s summary: The counteroffensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kursk region has slowed down, Ukrainian troops are trying to develop their success in the Glushkovsky districtCivilians in Kursk region suffer from Russian shelling and complain of mass lootingThe Russian Armed Forces have occupied Ukrainsk and are continuing …

CNN, citing two anonymous military sources , reported that the Pentagon has begun to allocate smaller amounts of military aid to Ukraine due to a “noticeable depletion of its own reserves.” At the same time, almost $6 billion that Congress allocated from the US Department of Defense reserves to support …

Exactly two years ago, a “partial mobilization” was declared in Russia. The authorities were forced to do so because of the catastrophic situation at the front, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces, taking advantage of the exhaustion of Russian forces, were advancing in two directions at once – in the Kharkov …

With heavy guns, Israeli soldiers barged into Al Jazeera office in Ramallah and ordered it shut down. The raid was in the early hours of the morning, Sunday. Troops raided the office with one soldier reading out an order to Al Jazeera Bureau Chief Waleed Al Omari. The soldier said: …

The situation in Syria remains highly volatile and complex, with various conflicts and tensions continuing to unfold across the country. In northern Syria, Turkish-occupied areas are experiencing rising tensions between mercenary groups over orders to disband and shift control, leading to military mobilizations. Meanwhile, the resurgence of ISIS has been …

Israel says the Syrian regime, aided directly by Iran, has established a secret plutonium production facility in Deir-ez-Zor as part of an undisclosed nuclear project. The head of Israel’s atomic energy agency, Moshe Edri, has accused the Syrian regime of constructing a facility in Deir-ez-Zor to produce radioactive plutonium, with …