Eurasia

An Embattled Regime Faces Mass Protests—and an Ailing Supreme Leader Early this month, the Iranian rumor mill cranked into overdrive amid reports that Iran’s 83-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who survived prostate cancer surgery in 2014, was again gravely ill. On September 16, the New York Times reported that …

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been named the kingdom’s prime minister, a position traditionally held by the king. Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, is first in line to succeed his father as king, who announced the new position on Tuesday in a royal …

Two people were killed and eight were wounded on Tuesday by Turkish artillery targeting homes and workshops controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the countryside of Syria’s northern province of Hasakah, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported. SDF retaliated by shelling villages controlled by Turkish troops …

Iran ramps up its bombing campaign in northern Iraq in what Iraqi Kurds argue is an attempt to divert the world’s attention from the killing of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. Iran unleashed a wave of missiles and drones on the headquarters of three separate Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in …

İtalya’da erken genel seçimlerin ilk sonucu şaşırtıcı değil. Faşist lider Mussolini’nin ardılı olarak kabul edilen İtalya’nın Kardeşleri Partisi (Fdl) lideri Meloni oyların yüzde 26’sını aldı. İçinde bulunduğu aşırı sağ ittifak yüzde 44 civarında oy aldı, hükümeti çok büyük olasılıkla bu yelpaze kuracak. Fdl 2018’de aldığı yüzde 4.4 oyu, altı kat …

A tentação nuclear estará nas mãos de Putin dentro de poucos dias, e não faltam chefes de Estado e de Governo europeus que já «normalizaram», nas suas cabeças, que esse confronto poderá ser inevitável A partir de agora, com os «referendos» terminados, e depois com a aprovação pela Duma, da …

Géniale, cette phrase, non? Un étudiant de première année en psychanalyse devrait en faire sa thèse: celui qui dit que ce n’est pas du bluff, bluffe. Je ne dis pas que Vladimir Vladimirovitch ne va pas déclencher le feu nucléaire. Je suis même persuadé qu’il pourrait le faire, peut-être directement …

How the Quest for Resources Has Shaped the Continent Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has laid bare some uncomfortable truths about Europe’s energy future. For one thing, it has demolished the presumption in Germany that Russia would be a reliable fossil fuel partner. The war has also blown …

The End of Putin’s Bargain With the People Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” intended to shore up his faltering war against Ukraine. The pretense that there is anything partial about this move, however, is about as convincing as Putin’s claim that Russia is merely carrying …

The Italian Parliamentary election has concluded and the neofascist, Giorgia Meloni, is ready to emerge as the new prime minister of a divided country with no clear mandate from around 60 percent of eligible voters, in one of the lower voter turnouts in history. The choices were quite grim and …