Eurasia Press & News
La tribune d’une poignée de militaires à la retraite exposant au grand jour le programme du Rassemblement national, à défaut d’être un réel danger, est un très mauvais signe pour la République, selon Jérôme Leroy. Selon lui les militaires doivent rester silencieux même lorsqu’ils ne sont plus en activité. Des …
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May, 2021
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3 May
Pentagon preparing for Taliban attacks during US withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Pentagon is preparing for possible Taliban attacks on U.S. and coalition forces as they withdraw from Afghanistan, a prospect that complicates the outlook for winding down America’s longest war. May 1 was the date all U.S. and other foreign forces were to have departed Afghanistan under a February 2020 …
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3 May
US troops begin leaving Afghanistan
The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan has officially begun in line with President Biden’s order for all U.S. troops to be out by Sept. 11, the White House confirmed Thursday. “A drawdown is underway,” deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters traveling on Air Force One. Biden ordered …
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3 May
US Army-led NATO military exercises launched in Albania
NATO has launched joint military exercises in Albania with thousands of military forces from the United States and other countries in the first such large-scale drills since World War II in the western Balkans, a U.S. Army official said Thursday. Col. Joseph Scrocca said “a staunch NATO ally since 2009, …
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3 May
Top US military intelligence official says Russian military poses an ‘existential threat’ to the US
The top US military intelligence official said during a congressional hearing on Thursday that the Russian military is an “existential threat” to the United States. “The Russian military is an existential threat to the United States,” Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said during a Senate …
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3 May
Gunfight at Syrian checkpoint leads to charges against sergeant first class
A rare gunfight between U.S. paratroopers and pro-Syrian regime forces last summer has led to charges against a senior enlisted soldier assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The clash occurred near Tal al-Zahab, in Syria’s northeast, where a tenuous U.S. military presence has guarded lucrative …
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3 May
Iran’s Zarif backs cease-fire in meeting with Yemen’s Houthis
Saudi Arabia and Iran held talks in Baghdad earlier this month to de-escalate tensions. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has restated Tehran’s support for a cease-fire in Yemen and talks between the country’s Houthi rebels and the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. …
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3 May
Blinken meets Israel’s Mossad chief to talk Iran
The meeting follows talks earlier this week involving Israeli officials and US national security adviser Jake Sullivan. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the head of Israel’s Mossad, Yossi Cohen, in Washington on Thursday, Reuters reported. The pair reportedly discussed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Israel’s ambassador to the United …
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2 May
Enquête: qui sont les Turcs en France?
Depuis la signature de la “convention de main-d’œuvre entre la France et la Turquie” en 1965, la diaspora turque n’a fait que s’amplifier en France pour atteindre les 700 000 personnes en 2020. La religion (islam) et l’attachement au pays d’origine (turcité) sont les caractéristiques de cette immigration. La communauté …
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2 May
La Turquie, c’est le califat aux portes de l’Europe
Pour le grand spécialiste du monde musulman Gilles Kepel, trois événements survenus en 2020 bouleversent le Moyen-Orient : le retrait des forces américaines, la pandémie et la chute du cours du pétrole. Le résultat en est une alliance surprenante entre sunnites et chiites qui, dirigée par Recep Erdogan, devient une …
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