August 5, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
In the southern suburb of Beirut on July 30, 2024, the IDF eliminated Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and the head of the organization’s strategic array. The attack was carried out in response to a rocket fired by Hezbollah which hit the Druze village of Majdal Shams and …
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August 5, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Gorbachev had a thin resume as an apparatchik who had risen in the party by doing nothing, in fact, by being nobody. When he came to London to be promoted by Margaret Thatcher, his 10-line resume introduced him as the Central Committee’s agricultural tsar who had risen to be party …
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August 5, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated during a visit to Iran in what the terror group claimed was an “airstrike” directly on his room that was conducted by Israel early Wednesday. His death dramatically escalates tensions in the Middle East and raises the specter of all-out war between …
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August 5, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Over the past two days, Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah figure close to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and is believed to be behind the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office, while he was in Tehran attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. The assassination …
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August 5, 2024 Eurasia
Le MiG-41 russe, présenté comme le remplaçant du MiG-31 «Foxhound», devrait repousser les limites de l’aviation avec des capacités s’étendant jusqu’à l’espace inférieur. Promettant des vitesses supérieures à Mach 4, des lasers anti-missiles et des armes EMP dirigées, le MiG-41 ressemble à de la science-fiction. La Russie choque l’Occident : …
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August 5, 2024 Eurasia
L’autre jour, le Sénat américain a tenu une nouvelle audition – et il y avait de quoi écouter. James O’Brien, conseiller du secrétaire d’État pour les affaires européennes et eurasiennes, a été le plus enflammé de tous. Dans son discours plein d’émotion, il a fait l’éloge de l’Arménie libre, qui …
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August 5, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
As the world braces for Iran and its Resistance Axis allies’ response to Israel’s assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran, it’s important to remember that Russia wants to avoid a larger war, not fuel one. Reports started circulating over the weekend on social media alleging that at least one Russian military …
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August 4, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Iran and its Axis of Resistance may target US forces in Syria as part of a retaliatory strike for Israel killing several Axis of Resistance leaders, including Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh. Euphrates Post reported that Iranian-backed Iraqi militias Kataib Hezbollah, Sayyida al Shuhada, and Harakat Ansar Allah al …
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August 4, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on July 31. Haniyeh was one of the most well-known faces of Hamas in the region. Ever since he took over Hamas’ Political Bureau in 2017, he has been a key leader in navigating the rising power of Hamas in the region …
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August 4, 2024 Africa, Eurasia
Key Takeaway: Tuareg insurgents with likely ties to the Tuareg separatist rebel coalition and al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate repelled a Malian-Russian offensive in northern Mali in the deadliest engagement for Russian forces since they arrived in Mali in 2021. The heavy casualties likely have prompted Malian and Russian forces to …
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