Eurasia Press & News

In today’s summary: The offensive of the RF Armed Forces in the north of the Kharkiv region has been stopped – the maximum advance was up to 10 km;Vladimir Putin said that there is no goal to capture Kharkiv, we are talking about the creation of a “sanitary zone” in …

Latest Developments A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed in Iran on May 19. Iranian personnel are still searching for the aircraft, which fell into Iran’s mountainous Eastern Azerbaijan Province. The passengers’ conditions remain unknown. Twenty rescue teams — including rescue workers, dogs, drones, …

The Mainstream Media always blames the West’s geopolitical adversaries without any evidence and solely based on vibes-driven speculation whenever something goes wrong on their side of the world, which the Alt-Media Community mocks and discredits, yet many of the latter are now doing the same regarding this crash. Iranian President …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were declared dead from a helicopter crash, Iranian state media said on Monday. The Iranian government held an emergency meeting following the announcement of Raisi’s death and afterward Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, named First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber …

Hamas is continuing to discuss its desired political end state in which a Hamas-influenced government governs the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh gave a speech on May 15 that outlined this end state, which will include an “administration” for the post-war Gaza Strip …

The Lebanese Sunni military group the Al-Fajr Forces has reemerged in recent months after a long hiatus, joining the fight against Israel alongside Hezbollah on the Israel-Lebanon border. The Al-Fajr Forces – established in 1982 – are the military wing of Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese Sunni Muslim organisation also known …

By stretching Ukrainian forces along a wide front, Russia is overcoming the limitations of its undertrained army. Russia has now started the early phases of its anticipated summer offensive with renewed attacks on Kharkiv. Over the past few days, Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border, occupying a number of villages. …

Strategic blindness in Germany’s approach to China has led to mounting costs in terms of national sovereignty, economic independence and civil liberties. Disentangling from Beijing will not be easy, but the benefits will outweigh any short-term difficulties. German Chancellor Scholz’s recent visit to China has been widely met with derision. …

During a landmark visit to Islamabad in April 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project under the umbrella of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Initially valued at $46 billion, the investment pledges soon swelled to $62 …

As the world focuses on Israel’s war in Gaza, northwest Syria is undergoing a significant political upheaval that could lead to major instability. For the last three months, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an armed Sunni Islamist group that governs more 4.5 million people in the Idlib region, has been facing …