Eurasia Press & News
According to local reports, militants linked to the Islamic State terror group have stepped up their attacks in eastern and central Syria in recent days. The local North Press Agency reports that at least two Syrian government soldiers were killed Monday in an attack carried out by suspected IS fighters …
Read More »Why Turkey Is Keen To Project Power In The Gulf Of Guinea – Analysis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to three Gulf of Guinea countries last month brings attention to the importance not only of this body of water, but also the competition for influence there. The Gulf of Guinea is hotter than ever. Erdogan visited Angola, Togo and Nigeria on his latest …
Read More »Deteriorated Situations
Pakistan Violent clashes erupted between hardline Sunni group and law-enforcement agencies in Punjab; deadly militant attacks and military operations persisted. Calling for release of detained party chief and expulsion of French ambassador, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) 21 Oct vowed to march from Punjab’s Lahore city to capital Islamabad. In violent clashes, …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Executes Detainee over Terrorism Links
The Saudi Interior Ministry executed on Monday a detainee for his ties to a number of fugitives wanted on terrorism charges. Saudi national Makki bin Kazem Al Obeid was executed in al-Dammam city. He was an accomplice to one of the detainees held in the shooting of a security forces …
Read More »Iraq arrests alleged Islamic State fighters after deadly attack
The Islamic State killed two Kurdistan Region soldiers and 12 civilians in recent attacks in northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces have captured several Islamic State fighters, a spokesperson announced today. The six alleged IS members were detained in Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq’s western Anbar province. Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool …
Read More »Tensions in Tehran-Baku Relations: Iran’s New Transit Routes in Armenia and the Caspian Sea
Although many observers assumed that the recent uptick in tensions between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan (see EDM, October 6) would die down following the telephone calls between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov (Al Jazeera, October 13), subsequent public remarks by the …
Read More »US flies B-1 bomber over Middle East amid tensions with Iran
The Pentagon is renewing show-of-strength flights over the Persian Gulf as the US waits for talks over Iran’s nuclear program to resume. The US flew a nuclear-capable B-1B bomber over major waterways of the Middle East, the Air Force said Sunday, in Washington’s latest show of force amid tensions and …
Read More »Syrian jihadi group cracks down on last pocket of rivals in Idlib
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, is waging a war against the jihadi Jundallah group, which it sees as an extremist organization that exposes the Islamic State’s ideology and harbors jihadists that HTS is chasing. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls Syria’s northwestern province of …
Read More »Iran presumed behind attack on US outpost in eastern Syria
Drones that targeted US forces in the Syrian desert in late October were allegedly Iranian. US officials believe that Iran “resourced and encouraged” an October 20 attack on a military outpost housing US forces in the eastern Syrian desert which involved drones carrying explosive charges and “indirect fire,” possibly rockets. …
Read More »Iraq’s elections weaken PKK in Sinjar
Iraq’s October elections may have strengthened the Iraqi Kurdistan administration’s hands in the Yazidi enclave of Sinjar. The ongoing power struggle between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP, the main political group ruling Iraqi Kurdistan) and armed Kurdish militants from Turkey over the Iraqi Yazidi enclave, Sinjar, has extended to the …
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