January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Unknown parties have carried out several operations against some of the Turkish army outposts in Idlib, with some accusing Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and others pointing the finger at Islamic State or regime cells.
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
How Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to improve ties with the United States and the European Union and get Turkey out of its economic morass without making any significant concessions remains unclear. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking a new chapter with the new US administration in order …
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January 27, 2021 Afghanistan, Eurasia, South East Asia
After more than a month of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government, progress toward a peace agreement remains slow. The key unknown variable is whether the United States has an appetite for staying involved in the long grind of overseeing a peace process that must reconcile two divergent …
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, South East Asia
When President-elect Joe Biden enters the Oval Office on Jan. 20, he is unlikely to have North Korea at the front of his mind, given the many other urgent crises he will confront. But the Korean Peninsula has a way of forcing American presidents to pay attention.
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, South East Asia
Although President Donald Trump has not conceded the United States presidential election and is mounting multiple dubious legal challenges to the results, President-elect Joe Biden is moving ahead with the transition.
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Syria has condemned western countries for interring in the affairs of Russia and accused them of exploiting the Navalny issue writes SANA. Syria has strongly condemned the blatant US and Western interference in the internal affairs of Federal Russia, pointing out that this behavior show once again the state of …
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Fourth Division has attacked the town of Tafas in Daraa, resulting in a call for a general mobilization by the Daraa Central Committee reports Baladi News.
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient
SDC co-chair Riad Darar has called on the Syrian Democratic Forces to join the work of the Constitutional Committee and find a political solution writes Asharq Al-Awsat.
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
No security cabinet meetings since election called on December 23 • ‘In this government, the cabinet practically didn’t function’ The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet has not convened in over a month, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formulates his policies on the Iranian threat with a new US president who seeks to rejoin …
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January 27, 2021 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
McKenzie’s upcoming visit comes at a time of increased tension in the region due to Iran’s continued aggression. Commander of CENTCOM, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, will arrive in Israel later this week in what will be the first high-level visit by a top American official since Joe Biden was sworn in …
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