Eurasia

The EU warned of “escalation and violence” on Monday (21 November) after Serbia and Kosovo failed to reach a deal in emergency talks in Brussels to end their long-running dispute over car license plates used by the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo. “After many hours of discussion (…) the two …

Austria, whose long-time reliance on Russian gas made it one of the EU’s most dependent countries before the war in Ukraine, has now seen its gas imports from the country dwindle to 21%, the government informed. Austria’s long-time dependence began in the 1960s when it received fossil gas in exchange …

Bulgaria’s caretaker government and Lukoil Neftochim Bulgaria have agreed that it can continue operating and exporting oil products to the EU until the end of 2024, as long as it pays its taxes in full, despite European Commission warnings this would breach the bloc’s sanctions regime. According to the Deputy …

La popolazione al confine, intanto, vive nel terrore perché i razzi cadono anche sulle case, sulle scuole, sugli uffici e non solo su obiettivi militari Muoiono i civili nel Kurdistan siriano e iracheno ma anche in Turchia. Nel silenzio generale della comunità internazionale Ankara porta avanti senza sosta l’operazione Spada-Artiglio, …

Several areas of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were targeted overnight after an IRGC commander warned of possible ground invasion and the Iranian ambassador set out demands. A massive orange fireball lit up the sky in an area outside the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on the night …

Iran is increasingly worried over Azerbaijani and Turkish geopolitical gains in the region as calls for “Greater Azerbaijan” push a hot button in Tehran. Tensions are rising between Iran and Azerbaijan over Baku’s plans for a land connection to its exclave of Nakhchivan via Armenian territory, threatening to undermine Turkish-Iranian …

Fears are rising in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast over a potential military incursion by Turkey. Turkey launched airstrikes on Syria’s majority-Kurdish region on Saturday night in apparent retaliation for a bombing that struck a crowded market in Istanbul last week. Syrian Kurdish officials reported strikes in the areas of Kobani, Derik, …

As the dust settles from airstrikes on Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, Turkey is threatening a wider operation in the region. For months Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to “come suddenly in the night” for Kurdish militants on Turkey’s southern border. On Saturday night, scores of F-16 …

The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level. Former President Trump, and others in the US including some Democrats as well as Republicans, have criticized continued US support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. They have called for military and …

By the beginning of November, EU countries had accumulated more than 100 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas. Underground storage across Europe was filled at an average of 94.68%. In Germany, the largest consumer of gas on the continent, storage reached 98.52%. At the same time, the spot price on …