December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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December 16, 2025 Balkans, Eurasia
On December 12, 2025, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital Sofia in the night of December 11. Between 50,000 and 100,000 people turned out in Sofia’s central Triangle of Power and …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
I arrived at the Taj Hotel in Baghdad’s Jadriyah neighborhood at 6 a.m., worn thin by the long flight from Los Angeles. After sleeping until mid-afternoon, I stepped out into the 90-degree heat on a simple mission: find falafel, fries, and a place to exchange money. A local bus picked …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia
FLORENCE, Italie – La nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale des États-Unis, version décembre 2025, est une bête hybride fascinante et décalée, digne d’un tableau de Bosch. Et elle est tout sauf ce qu’elle semble être. Une vague de gros titres dans un Occident déboussolé s’est concentrée sur une prétendue dynamique …
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December 16, 2025 Africa, Eurasia, Middle Orient
Une source gouvernementale bien informée a déclaré au Times of Israel que «le président égyptien Abdel Fattah al-Sissi n’envisage pas actuellement de rencontrer le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou, malgré les informations faisant état des tentatives de Tel-Aviv pour organiser un éventuel sommet au Caire». La source a indiqué que …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The U.S. capture of a tanker accused of carrying Venezuelan and Iranian oil was not an isolated action. It was an escalation—another step in Washington’s long campaign to strangle the Bolivarian People’s Socialist Democratic Revolution and to punish Iran for refusing submission to U.S. diktat. Within hours, Tehran answered in …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Local factions in Suwayda renewed attacks on internal security forces affiliated with Syria’s Ministry of Interior, on the province’s western front, on Saturday, 13 December. Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Daraa (southern Syria) said local factions in Suwayda targeted an internal security vehicle with a bomb-laden drone in the town of …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Yosr Bernieh , in his capacity as chair of the board of Syria’s Insurance Supervision Authority, announced the dissolution of the Syrian Insurance Companies Union and the Insurance Agents and Brokers Union. In a post on LinkedIn today, Friday 12 December, the minister said the move …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
President Donald Trump said Saturday that “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group. “This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and Syria, in a …
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December 16, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The Iraqi government did the right thing and froze the assets of Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, but once the story made news on December 4, the government walked its decision back within hours. In November, the country’s Committee for the Freezing of Terrorists’ Funds put the two Iran-backed groups on …
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