Eurasia

Independence remains defining issue in Scottish politics and is likely to stay so regardless of who picks up the SNP baton Nicola Sturgeon ran out of road. It is as simple as that. Scotland’s first minister, a supreme communicator with a strong claim to being the most effective political leader …

Former president Milan Kučan and many other prominent names are calling on countries to end the war in Ukraine. Several prominent politicians, intellectuals and artists called on the EU, NATO, the United States of America and the Russian Federation to end the war in Ukraine in a public letter signed …

La SMP « Wagner » est une société militaire privée fondée, financée et dirigée par Evgueni Prigojine, homme d’affaires et aventurier quelque peu hors normes. Le fait que ce soit une société privée ne veut pas dire qu’elle soit sans foi ni loi – ni surtout sans patrie : la …

On February 17, 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo adopted by acclamation the Declaration on the Independence of Kosovo. All 109 Albanian MPs voted for the declaration. As Danas wrote at the time, the Kosovo Parliament continued its work in an extraordinary session by adopting the state symbols – the coat …

The geopolitical evolutions in the Middle East marked by the so-called “Arab Spring”, the conflict in Yemen, the threat represented by the Iranian nuclear program and other global geopolitical developments determined United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take some important steps for modernizing and improving its intelligence services starting with the …

NATO Defence Ministers are meeting in Brussels this week (14-15 February 2023) to strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence and defence, and step up and sustain for Ukraine.

Despite leadership losses and diminished cash reserves, the extremist group ISIL, or Da’esh, continues to pose a threat to international peace and security, the UN counter-terrorism chief warned last week in New York. Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov briefed the Security Council where he presented the latest UN report on the terrorist …

The United States said Wednesday its assessment aligns with a United Nations report that the new head of the al-Qaeda terror group, Saif al-Adel, is based in Iran. “When it comes to his presence there, offering safe haven to al-Qaeda is just another example of Iran’s wide-ranging support for terrorism, …

Even Great Powers Aren’t Safe From Economic Warfare—If the U.S.-Led Order Sticks Together When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, China’s leaders attempted to balance two fundamentally irreconcilable interests. First, they aimed to bolster China’s entente with Russia to counterbalance American power and alleviate growing strategic pressure from the West. …

TAMPA, Fla. — Last night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four U.S. servicemembers and one working dog wounded. The targeted ISIS senior leader, Hamza al-Homsi, was killed. The U.S. servicemembers and working dog are receiving …