Eurasia Press & News

Over 2,000 families have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi owing to heavy clashes between the Islamic State (IS) militants and government forces. Most of the displaced families headed to capital Baghdad and settled in predominantly Sunni districts in southern and western Baghdad, a security source said.

At least 76 people were killed in Yemen today as Saudi-led warplanes pounded rebels heading to bolster an assault on loyalists in Aden and fighting raged in Taez, officials said. At least 20 rebels were killed, and two tanks and four armoured vehicles destroyed, in the overnight air strikes on …

French President Francois Hollande will discuss the Ukraine crisis with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a visit to Armenia on April 24. A source in Hollande’s office said April 17 that Putin and Hollande will attend a ceremony in Yerevan marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

The Spanish Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on Malian parties to sign the peace agreement signed on March 1 in Algiers by the Malian government and three Malian armed groups, saying it is the best way to achieving peace and national reconciliation in Mali.

UN envoy Bernardino Leon on Thursday shuttled between delegates of Libya’s rival parliaments in Morocco as he pushed for a unity government to stem growing unrest in their country. Libya has been divided since the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi, with rival governments and parliaments and armed groups …

Nigeria’s outgoing president told the United Nations on Thursday not to focus on deploying an international force to fight Boko Haram but instead help victims of its terror. President Goodluck Jonathan met with the U.N. special representative for West Africa, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, as Nigeria is accused of blocking a …

Fighters from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram killed at least 10 people in overnight attacks on two villages in neighbouring northern Cameroon, two senior army sources said on Friday. Soldiers from Nigeria, alongside troops from neighbours Chad, Niger and Cameroon, have driven Boko Haram out of many border areas seized …

Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche met, Friday in Tunis, ambassador of France in Tunis François Gouyette. The meeting, which took place a few days after President Béji Caid Essebsi’s state visit to France, discussed “the large  opportunities provided to further strengthen the excellent and intense Tunisian-French relations,” a statement of …

The participants in the 2nd French-Moroccan Parliamentary Forum, held on Thursday, stressed the need to step up bilateral partnership to fight terrorism and develop a comprehensive approach against this phenomenon. In the final statement adopted at the end of this forum, Moroccan and French parliamentarians noted that France and Morocco share …

Around 200 Canadian soldiers will be sent to western Ukraine to help train its soldiers and military police, the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced in Ottawa on April 14.  The Canadian Forces will assist British and U.S. troops in a non-combat role beginning this summer, based mostly at the NATO …