Eurasia Press & News
On Sunday evening, the Trump administration released a statement from the White House press secretary that signals a major shift in U.S. policy toward Syria.
Read More »Pompeo Inks New Defense Pact With Greece, Criticizes Russia, Iran, China
The United States and Greece have signed an updated defense-cooperation pact, a move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said was not aimed against any one nation in the region, including Turkey.
Read More »U.S. pulling troops from northern Syria posts, leaving Kurdish allies to face Turkey
American troops have begun pulling back from positions in northern Syria in line with an order from the White House. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the action hours after the White House said U.S. forces in northeast Syria would move aside and clear the path for an expected Turkish …
Read More »Israel should focus more on Iran’s nuclear weapons than on Hezbollah’s missiles
A senior Israeli official recently said that Israel’s top priorities are to prevent Iran from producing a nuclear weapon and to thwart Hezbollah’s precision missile project.
Read More »Israeli citizen indicted for trying to join ISIS, produce explosives
A resident of the southern Israeli town of Tel Sheva was indicted on Sunday for attempting to join the ISIS terrorist organization and produce explosives.
Read More »Iran’s attack on Saudi Arabia was ill-timed and premature
On Sept. 14, the news that Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities had been attacked and damaged came as a shock. While there had been a gradual escalation in Iranian-led hostilities following the U.S. dismantling of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (aka the Iran nuclear deal), the general expectation was that …
Read More »The war in Syria is far from over, but its nature is changing
Since the beginning of 2018, the Syrian regime has expanded its control of territory across the country from approximately 52 percent to 62 percent. That 10 percent of territory gained was a crucially important 10 percent, encompassing opposition-held areas in Syria’s southwest, rural Homs, and eastern Ghouta, as well as …
Read More »Hezbollah dominance starts to drag on Lebanon
Relying on the legacy of his supremely connected late father, Prime Minister Saad Hariri used to repeatedly conjure solutions for Lebanon to survive economic trouble.
Read More »Nasrallah: Hezbollah will ‘enter occupied Palestine’ with improved intelligence
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday issued further threats against Israel, saying the Lebanese terror organization’s “unprecedented levels of intelligence” would soon lead to its fighters “entering occupied Palestine.”
Read More »Syria Demands Immediate Withdrawal of U.S. and Turkish Forces, Again
Syria’s foreign minister demanded on Saturday that American and Turkish forces evacuate the war-ravaged country immediately or face “any and all countermeasures authorized under international law.”
Read More »