Eurasia Press & News

The surprise offensive by Jihadist-led rebels into Aleppo reignited the Syrian civil war after four years of relative quiet and put the United States in an unenviable position. Hayat Tahrir al Sham, recognized as a terrorist group by the United States, and allied militias have continued their offensive, battling the …

Israel threatened on Tuesday to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hezbollah collapses, and said this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese state itself, after the deadliest day since the ceasefire was agreed last week. In its strongest threat since the truce was …

Putin confronts potential loss of key maritime assets in Syria, Black Sea, and Baltic regions. Retired US Army Europe Commander Mark Hertling said that Russian President Vladimir Putin faces simultaneous threats to his military maritime assets in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Baltic regions. Russia’s naval assets in these regions …

Russian forces are conducting up to 25 daily assaults to breach the border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. Russian forces have intensified offensive operations near Velyka Novosilka, making strategic advances that could potentially reshape the conflict dynamics in the border region between Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, the Institute for …

3 December 2024 – The ongoing escalation of violence in northwest Syria linked to the wider conflict in Gaza and Lebanon has left civilians dead and injured, hospitals “overwhelmed” with healthcare attacks on the rise, the UN warned on Tuesday. Renewed fighting last week led by the terrorist group Hay’at …

Palestinian officials said Tuesday that Fatah and the militant group Hamas were close to an agreement on a plan for administering postwar Gaza. The plan would see Fatah, which governs part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007, jointly appointing a committee of up …

Western leaders are calling for continued military support to Ukraine as it battles Russia’s nearly 3-year invasion but are balking at the Kyiv government immediately joining NATO, the West’s main military alliance, for fear it would drag the allies into a wider conflict with Moscow. U.S. Secretary of State Antony …

American forces on Tuesday morning attacked and destroyed several weapons including rocket launchers and a tank operating near a U.S.-led coalition base in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said. The U.S. strikes took place near Military Support Site Euphrates and destroyed three truck-mounted rocket launchers, a T-64 tank and mortars that …

The European Union urgently needs a Russia strategy. A strategy document that articulates a strong vision and comes with the proper policy tools and financial commitments would serve as a signal to the United States that Europe understands the threat posed by Putin’s Russia at a critical moment in the …

China is leveraging its military training exercises with African forces to advance China’s expeditionary capabilities and geostrategic ambitions. China’s 2-week military exercises with Tanzania and Mozambique in July and August 2024 marked a significant expansion of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engagement in Africa. The battalion-sized Chinese deployment (approximately 1,000 troops) …