Eurasia Press & News
Prosecutors in the Austrian state of Carinthia have started a trial against an alleged Hezbollah commander who spent 13 years in the central European country while reportedly being involved in financing terrorism.
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March, 2020
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23 March
Purported new Iraqi Shia group claims attacks on Camp Taji
A likely Iranian-backed militant group called “League of the Revolutionaries” published a video Sunday claiming responsibility for recent attacks against a base housing American-led coalition troops in Iraq.
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23 March
EU Monitors Say Pro-Kremlin Media Spread Coronavirus Disinformation
Pro-Kremlin media outlets are actively spreading disinformation about coronavirus in an attempt to “undermine public trust” in Western countries, according to an internal European Union document.
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23 March
Central Asian Countries Use Different Strategies To Deal With Coronavirus Crisis
A glance at a global map tracking the spread of the coronavirus just one week ago would have shown a large blank space south of Russia, north of Iran, and west of China as an area completely free of the virus.
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23 March
People Promoting Facts, not Fake News, in Balkan Coronavirus Fight
With hundreds of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Balkans, a few people have taken on the burden of keeping the public calm and well-informed. BIRN takes a look at some of them.
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23 March
Kosovo’s Thaci Takes Aim at EU, Trying to Preserve Negotiating Role
In cosying up to Washington and criticising Brussels, Kosovo’s president is trying to protect his place at the negotiating table with Serbia, analysts say. Since returning from a week-long trip to Washington in early March, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has turned his fire on the European Union, seeing the United …
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23 March
Chinese major homemade aircraft conducts test flights despite epidemic
Major Chinese home-grown aircraft, including the C919 large passenger jet, AG600 large amphibious aircraft and Y-20 large transport aircraft, have managed to conduct test flights and operations despite the novel coronavirus epidemic.
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23 March
Sharing the Burden: Revisiting the EU-Turkey Migration Deal
On the night of 27-28 February, Turkey lifted the strict controls it has enforced at its sea and land borders with Greece since March 2016, prompting thousands of migrants to head for the frontier in order to attempt passage into Europe. Ankara’s decision came just an hour after news broke …
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19 March
Battle for the Sahel: the new frontline in the war on terror
International forces are struggling to contain a brutal Islamist insurgency, with the death toll rising alarmingly. The Trump administration shook hands with the Taliban on Saturday to end a near two decades-long war in Afghanistan. But just as one front in the battle on terror is closing a new one …
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19 March
What will happen to Iraqi Shiite militias after one key leader’s death?
The U.S. decision to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in January inadvertently also caused the death of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the powerful and influential head of Kataib Hezbollah and de facto head of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). While commentators have focused on Soleimani, the death of Muhandis has broad …
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