Eurasia Press & News

The U.S. military is helping intercept missiles that Iran fired in retaliation at Israel, a U.S. official says. The U.S. has been moving assets nearer to Israel to assist in missile intercepts and to provide better protection of U.S. bases in the region. While the official did not say how …

Latest Developments IDF Strikes Targets Across Iran: Israel launched multiple waves of strikes against Iranian targets associated with the regime’s nuclear program in the early hours of June 13. Announcing the operation, dubbed “Rising Lion,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as “a targeted military operation to roll back …

A draft statute obtained by BIRN suggests Kosovo’s president will press ahead with a ‘presidential’ commission on Kosovo’s 1998-99 war, ignoring experts who say it risks being seen as ‘highly political’. Kosovo’s president is poised to launch a ‘transitional justice’ commission with a three-year mandate and the possibility of survivors …

More complex than a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ Even so, I was still able to interview 12 ethnic Hungarian community leaders, some of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, while others agreed to give only their first names and line of work. These individuals offered a range of opinions. Some echoed …

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has exposed a new, highly clandestine nuclear weapons program codenamed the “Kavir Plan” (Desert Plan), revealing the Iranian regime’s intensified and duplicitous push to acquire an atomic bomb. In a press conference held at its Washington, D.C. office on June 10, 2025, …

Travelers walk on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa border crossing with Syria a day after the Assad regime collapsed [Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty] The Lebanese government has finalised a new plan to encourage the return of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees through financial incentives, with the proposal expected …

The war in Ukraine has revived EU enlargement, but it has certainly not fixed the union’s credibility problem. Elites on the European periphery believe that the bloc is losing influence in global and regional affairs. U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the EU are further eroding the belief that the …

Israel launched wide scale strikes against Iran on Friday, saying it targeted nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders and that this was the start of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon. Iran had launched about 100 drones towards Israeli territory in retaliation, which …

In February, Europe witnessed a string of terrorist acts, committed by both legal and illegal immigrants. These included a car-ramming attack in Munich by a 24-year-old Afghan resident; a knife attack in Villach, Austria, by a 23-year-old Syrian refugee; and a stabbing attack in Mulhouse, France, by an Algerian irregular …

President Donald Trump’s point person for Syria says the administration is concerned that Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa’s efforts to promote inclusive governance and engage with the West could make him a target for assassination by disaffected militants. “We need to coordinate a protection system around [Sharaa],” Ambassador Tom Barrack told …