Eurasia

With its foreign policy maneuvering space increasingly constrained, Turkey’s hedging between its NATO allies and Russia will be harder to maintain. A decade into adopting a more assertive foreign policy that enabled Turkey to successfully project power and shape the Syrian, Libyan, and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, Ankara’s maneuvering space appears to …

While on the so-called. Kosovo is what is happening and the so-called “palacinka” announces the announcement in which it will announce what kind of so-called measures we will take, there is no noise and anger in the capital, especially from the right. It is quiet, even Miša Vacić does not …

The United States will continue to provide assistance, advice and training to Iraqi forces, Iraqi and US officials say. United States-led forces have ended their combat mission in Iraq, senior US and Iraqi officials said, as the coalition transitions to an advisory role assisting Iraqi forces. Qassim al-Araji, Iraq’s national …

Amid the ongoing delay in Iran’s response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, senior Iranian military officials have stepped up their statements concerning Iran’s commitment to retaliate against Israel at the appropriate time, albeit with different characteristics than the Iranian attack on Israel in April 2024. E_196_24Download

Court documents detail claims of how an alleged drug boss living in Dubai laundered money in his native Albania, helping to fuel a rapid rise in real estate prices. In September 2020, Klajdi Merkaj was getting ready to travel to Dubai with the intention of securing new funds for his …

Le ministre saoudien de l’industrie et des ressources minérales a déclaré que son pays «essaierait de nouvelles choses» – notamment l’utilisation du yuan dans les transactions pétrolières – alors que Riyad cherche à intégrer des produits chinois tels que les véhicules électriques, l’avion de ligne C919 et les infrastructures d’énergie …

The visit of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Iraq raises several questions about the future of Iraqi-Iranian relations. Is Iraq heading towards radical and decisive changes? However, a reading of the factors and variables indicates that change in Iraq will not affect its relations with Iran politically or security-wise. The …

On July 16, 2024, Georgian national Mikhail Chkhikvishvili was indicted in the Eastern District of New York on four counts of conspiracy to solicit hate crimes and acts of mass violence. Court filings show Chkhikvishvili was acting on behalf of an organization known as M.K.Y., a violent accelerationist network that …

The terrorist threat from jihadi groups was progressively degraded by counterterrorism measures after 9/11. The military defeat of the Islamic State ushered in a period from about 2017 of unusually low threat in non-conflict zones around the world, followed by some disinvestment from CT by Western governments. However, Russia’s full-scale …

Locally, Arizona is having an endless summer with especially high temperatures. On September 2, 2024 Phoenix hit its 100th straight day with at least 100 degree temperatures. Summer 2024 was Earth’s hottest on record. Globally, nearly three quarters of the world’s population can expect strong and rapid changes in extreme …