Eurasia Press & News

According to foreign reports, Israel is increasing its offensive activities in Syria against Iran-related targets. With negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program stalled and the world’s attention focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israel appears to be intensifying its military activity in Syria. According to foreign news reports, Israel has …

The media and a member of the Kurdistan Region parliament have spoken out against threats and pressure from the PKK, as tensions and drone attacks increase. As drones and rockets target both Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters and Turkish military deployed to Iraq, an attack by PKK supporters on a …

On May 16–17, with much of the attention in Eurasia still fixated on the Russian-Ukrainian war, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, paid a visit to Tajikistan, where he met with President Emomali Rahmon and senior military officials. In the most important event …

Warring parties Saudi Arabia and the Yemen’s Houthi movement have resumed direct talks to discuss security along the kingdom’s border and future relations under any peace deal with Yemen, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The so far sporadic negotiations between the two sides resumed last month …

France announced on Wednesday that soldiers from its operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa had captured Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior Islamic State figure in Mali. The French Armed Forces ministry said Albakaye was captured by Operation Barkhane forces between the night of June 11 …

Al Jazeera’s Alex Gatopoulos examines whether new tactics and objectives are giving Russia an advantage in the Ukraine war. In the battle for the Donbas, the fight over Severodonetsk has entered a crucial stage. Ukrainian units are locked in a desperate struggle with Russian infantry and armour intent on taking …

Previously, U.S. policy was that Americans were forbidden to invest in companies included in a “blacklist” of Chinese companies directly involved in China’s military, and in producing applications used by the Communist regime to oppress its own people and threaten its neighbors. The new “answers” amount to a wholesale abandonment …

Ukrainasta sotaa Suomeen paenneille pitää saada henkilötunnukset pikavauhtia. Tuhannet sotaa Suomeen jo kuukausia sitten paenneet ukrainalaiset eivät ole saaneet henkilötunnusta. Sen puuttuminen vaikeuttaa esimerkiksi työntekoa ja asunnon saamista. Tilanne on kohtuuton. Ihmisiä pompotellaan tiskiltä toiselle, mikä on tavallisellekin suomalaiselle uuvuttavaa, saati ukrainalaiselle, joka ei osaa viranomaisten käyttämää kieltä. Euroopan unioni …

Zmniejszające się gwałtownie zainteresowanie wojną znajdzie prędzej czy później odzwierciedlenie w działaniach europejskich polityków. Niestety, raczej prędzej. Gdy widzę w gazecie nazwisko kończące się na »ić«, to przewracam stronę” – tak po miesiącach wojny jugosłowiańskiej powiedział mój kolega, też dziennikarz, również interesujący się sprawami zagranicznymi. Nie jest cynikiem, to człowiek …

Ukrainian forces are suffering painful losses in the fight against Russian troops in the east of the country as they await the delivery of promised weapons from Western countries, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on June 14 in a late-night address. Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons now, he said, adding there …