Eurasia Press & News

In the days since Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s Alaska summit, the world’s attention has turned to the portion of the Donetsk region that Kyiv still controls — and that Putin wants it to give up. This territory contains Ukraine’s “fortress belt,” a 31-mile stretch of defensive structures and fortified …

Abstract: The 12-day Iran war may be over, but the threat of Iranian reprisal attacks now looms large, and will for the foreseeable future. European authorities exposed plots in Sweden and Germany even as the war was being waged, and Israeli authorities issued a warning over potential attacks in the …

Latest Developments LAF Begins Process of Consolidating Arms: The Lebanese government claimed on August 21 that it had begun disarming Palestinian factions in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, as part of a broader effort to ensure the state’s monopoly on the use of force. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun …

The post-American world economy has arrived. U.S. President Donald Trump’s radical shift in economic approach has already begun to change norms, behaviors, and institutions globally. Like a major earthquake, it has given rise to new features in the landscape and rendered many existing economic structures unusable. This event was a …

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing modern warfare, as seen in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Drones now cause 70–80% of battlefield casualties, with both sides developing AI-powered targeting systems. AI has boosted first-person view drone strike accuracy from 30–50% to around 80%. David Kirichenko points to the rising ethical concerns about machines …

A US arms firm explored importing 122,000 tons of Chinese TNT into Bosnia via a local arms producer it part owns. The deal never went ahead, but the amount on offer – far in excess of the producer’s own needs – raises questions about where the explosives might have ended …

Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party members, protected by police, clashed with protesters again in major Serbian cities on Thursday night as months of anti-corruption demonstrations erupted into civil unrest for a fifth consecutive night. In cities and towns across the country, protesters mostly demonstrated at Progressive Party (SNS) …

An opposition councillor in the city assembly, Ivan Manic, told N1 at the start of Saturday night’s protest that Valjevo has never before witnessed scenes like the ones seen in recent days. “The past few days have been the most dramatic in our history. Nothing like this has ever been …

Friday’s “peace summit” in Anchorage was not about peace. It was about war, specifically how Russia can continue to fight a war Vladimir Putin believes he is now winning, while pretending he wants “peace”. It was about the rehabilitation of a disgraced leader wanted by the International Criminal Court in …

For the first time in 15 years, Viktor Orban faces the real possibility of losing power as Peter Magyar’s opposition party leads in the polls. The outcome could reshape Hungary’s foreign policy, with direct implications for the EU. Two speeches on July 26 presented utterly different Hungarian foreign policy visions. …