Eurasia Press & News

After months of delays in the US Congress, an overwhelming bipartisan majority approved a new $61 billion aid package for Ukraine. Last week’s vote was a long time coming: the last time Congress authorized funding for Ukraine was December 2022. Before that, the US had allocated a total of $116 …

Normally, I prefer academics to remain separate from politics. It’s fashionable among certain groups to “politicize” everything, which, basically means, one key for every lock on this planet. They hold the bizarre view that everything is “political;” therefore, not to talk about politics in a classroom is somehow being unfaithful …

Ce sont les BRICS la plus grande puissance mondiale. Les dernières adhésions, dont l’Iran, attestent du sérieux tranquille de leurs démarches vers les équilibres généraux. Suffit même de les mettre face à l’Occident, aux agitations si frénétiques, aux déraisonnements si déstructurés, aux incohérences de comportements hachurées – pour nous faire …

Fuite des capitaux et exil des cerveaux, monnaie dépréciée, hyper-inflation, taux de chômage des jeunes au-dessus de 20%, l’économie iranienne paraît proche de la rupture. Mais établir un état des lieux d’un État qui s’est construit dans les sanctions occidentales depuis près de 15 ans, hormis la parenthèse de 2016-2018, …

Voici ce que tout le monde doit comprendre à propos de l’Ukraine : Les États-Unis sont déjà passés au plan B. Non, l’administration Biden n’a pas fait de déclaration officielle à ce sujet, mais le changement a déjà commencé. Le brain-trust de Washington a abandonné tout espoir de gagner la …

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi traveled to Pakistan earlier this week to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and to smooth tensions lingering from a skirmish between Tehran and Islamabad that erupted after Iran launched missiles into Pakistan, with Pakistan returning fire. There was no mention of longstanding plans to …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Iraq yesterday, the first time the Turkish leader has made the trip in over a decade, with a host of issues on the agenda including discussions related to counterterrorism, trade, water, and energy. At the top of the list of priorities is counterterrorism …

Iran’s April 14 missile and drone barrage against Israel demonstrated Iran’s growing strategic capabilities but also its limitations. Iran’s attack reassured its regional allies but also demonstrated that pro-Iranian factions closer to Israel’s borders perhaps pose a greater threat than Iran itself. The defeat of its missile and drone volleys …

The operational synergy between the Lebanese Army’s Intelligence Directorate and Syrian counterparts led to the capture of the three suspects in a border region shared by Syria and Lebanon. The Lebanese Intelligence Directorate, in collaboration with Syrian authorities, successfully apprehended the three Syrian individuals accountable for the abduction and subsequent …

North Press reported that the Syrian government forces appointed on Tuesday Suhail al-Hassan, as the commander of the 14th Special Forces Division in the Syrian government forces. Hassan was also assigned to be commander of the campaign against the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions aka the Syrian National Army (SNA) in …