Eurasia Press & News

Tensions in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh continue and hostilities are far from over, despite Azerbaijani and Armenian media reports that there is “moderate peace” in the region’s less populated areas. According to Turkish media, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held telephone conversations on Saturday …

The Syria Response Coordinators team in northern Syria issued a statement, on Sunday, in which it counted the number of civilian casualties, the number of ground and airstrikes, as well as the regime forces and Russia’s violations of the ceasefire in the fourth de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria during the …

In a call with President Putin, Assad has said that he hopes the upcoming refugee conference will be a success and that most refugees want to return writes SANA. President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that the International Conference on Refugees’ Return, scheduled to be held in Damascus, is just the start …

The Taliban say they expect President-elect Joe Biden to stick to a peace agreement the insurgent group sealed with the United States earlier this year to end the war in Afghanistan, America’s longest.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has promised to stake a new course with Iran, pledging that Washington will rejoin the 2015 landmark nuclear deal if Tehran returns to full compliance. In a September opinion piece published on CNN, Biden said he was “ready to walk the path of diplomacy if Iran …

U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, when first elected, both thought they could establish a rapport with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and dramatically improve U.S.-Russian relations. Their appraisal of Putin swiftly changed.

President Ilham Aliyev says Azerbaijani forces have taken Shushi (known as Susa in Azeri), the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Armenian officials denied the report but confirmed fighting around the city, a hilltop settlement located on a main road overlooking the breakaway region’s main city, Stepanakert.

The agreement on buying Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes is part of the German Defence Ministry’s effort to replace its ageing Tornado fighter jets, which entered service with the Luftwaffe back in 1983.

Former Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters intercepted an operation carried out by the regime forces on Sunday morning in neighborhoods of the Daraa al-Balad region in the center of Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, which was searching for wanted persons, according to local networks.

Though Empire-builders of the first order, the Ottomans were always careful not to bite more than they could chew. Erdogan, however, is leading Turkey into empire-building adventures which it does not want and cannot afford. It has… launched a war of words with the European Union as a whole. Ostensibly, …