Eurasia Press & News

United States President Barack Obama continues to evaluate the US policy on the Ukraine crisis with the objective of further isolating Russia and convince Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to reevaluate his strategy. “The President’s view continues to be that this administration needs to be continually assessing what our strategy is to further isolate the …

At least four soldiers were killed today when a vehicle of the security forces was hit by a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region. The remote-controlled IED hit the vehicle, killing four troops in Urmagai area of central Kurram Agency bordering Afghanistan this morning, officials said. Soon after the …

NATO will deploy small units in six Eastern European nations to help coordinate a spearhead force set up in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the alliance’s secretary-general said Friday. NATO defence ministers are expected to agree to set up command units, staffed with national and NATO soldiers, in six eastern European …

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi met, Friday, with his Egyptian counterpart Abdelfattah Al-Sissi on the 24th African Union Summit held from January 30 to 31 in Addis Ababa. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Beji Caid Essebsi said talks focused on terrorism facing the two countries. The Libyan crisis was …

The United Nations has welcomed the setting-up of an African regional military force of 7,500 troops to fight against the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram and other armed groups, endorsed by the African Union’s Peace and Security Council. The African Union (AU) called for a “collective response” against Boko Haram …

Syrian Kurdish militias, who drove out Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants from the center of Kobane after 134 days of battle, are launching operations into the villages surrounding the Syrian border town in a bid to clear the last frontiers of the battle from the Islamists. …

Tunisia Feb. 2 presented its new coalition government, dominated by the secular Nidaa Tounes party but also including its Islamist rivals, as it prepares to tackle security problems and a faltering economy. Prime Minister Habib Essid announced the makeup of his new cabinet, which had initially been abandoned after the …

An Egyptian court on Monday upheld the death sentences of 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters convicted of killing 13 people during violence in 2013 after the ouster of the country’s first Islamist President Mohamed Morsy. The court, in its judgment on 188 defendants who were given death in a preliminary verdict …

Armed forces killed three militants during an exchange of fire with “terrorists” in North Sinai’s Rafah on Saturday evening. The armed forces returned fire when militants attacked a checkpoint using mortar shells and RPG. Aswat Masriya quoted a military source saying that six military personnel were injured. The armed forces …

Sustained US-led airstrikes along with the Kurdish ground forces have forced the Islamic State out of key Syrian border town Kobane, the Pentagon has said. “Kurdish ground forces, supported by our air component, were successful in retaking the town of Kobane, which again shows the emptiness of Daesh’s claims of …