Eurasia Press & News

There was nothing that unusual about the day when Karen Sudkamp reached her breaking point. She had spent years as an intelligence analyst watching drone videos of terrorists and military operations in almost real time. She had never thought much about the toll it was taking, until that one day …

Ankara is backing the oil-rich Turkic nation’s current drive to seize all of Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Turkey, as thousands of ethnic Armenians continued to flee Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia proper in the wake of a …

The US military said it captured a senior IS official in Syria on Saturday, as renewed fighting Monday between Kurdish-led forces and Arab tribes in Deir Ezzor raised new questions as to the open-ended nature of the US mission. US troops captured a senior Islamic State (IS) official during a …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession depends on Washington keeping its promises to Ankara. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Turkey will keep its promise to ratify Sweden’s NATO accession if Washington keeps its pledges to Ankara, including on the sale …

Malaysia faces a tough crossroads of economic choice in choosing to end its reliance on China or to align more closely on the West for long term economic assurance, albeit in a slower term. Kuala Lumpur will need to have a strategic long term reorientation of its economic fundamentals, especially …

(FPRI) — In the past month, there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity between countries that, typically, don’t get along: Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met in New York with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time on September 19. Additionally, …

On the occasion of the incident in the village of Banjska in the north of Kosovo, in which one policeman of the Kosovo Police and three attackers were killed, the Government of Serbia declared Wednesday, September 27, a Day of Mourning. In a statement, the government stated that it is …

With thousands fleeing Nagorny Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s lightning victory ended 30 years of de facto sovereignty by a breakaway Armenian community, its population faces an uncertain future. As Azerbaijanis celebrate a future homecoming to the long-estranged region, scores of buses and cars carrying Karabakh residents headed to neighbouring Armenia. The …

“The Day of Mourning in Serbia is a bad signal, it is distasteful to declare a Day of Mourning for a terrorist act, and a terrorist act became when a police officer was killed. So the whole story is distasteful in that context,” said the head of the Committee for …

People say “it’s not the neck but the neck”, but that joke is wrong. Because neck and neck are not exactly the same, although they mean the same thing – the part of the body that holds the head. But there are no complete synonyms because the words resonate differently …