January 16, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Following a relatively quiet year in the Middle East from Europe’s perspective, 2023 is likely to bring significant challenges in the region – and governments in London and other European capitals will need to be prepared. In 2022, the Middle East seemed to drop down the list of priorities for …
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January 16, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The precision of Iranian-made suicide UAVs, combined with their cheapness, has turned them into a potent weapon on the battlefields of Ukraine. The appearance of Iran’s Shahed 131/136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Ukraine has catapulted them to the centre of global attention and generated numerous papers by military observers …
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January 16, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkey’s major pro-Kurdish opposition party has announced it will field its own candidate in a move sure to have a profound impact on the presidential race, but in which direction? Turkey’s third-largest political party, the pro-Kurdish Democratic People’s Party (HDP), announced over the weekend that it will field its own …
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January 16, 2023 Eurasia, South East Asia
China is seeking to undermine the longstanding pre-eminence of the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency and the primary vehicle for conducting world energy transactions. The prominence of the U.S. dollar in global transactions provides Washington with substantial leverage to use economic sanctions to try to change the behavior …
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January 16, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia
Ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije Ivica Dačić rekao je da Kosovo ima dovoljan broj glasova za prijem u Savet Evrope (SE), s obzirom na broj zemalja u tom telu koje su ga priznale, ali da je pitanje da li sve one smatraju da o toj temi sada treba razgovarati. „Kada je …
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January 16, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia
Direktor RTV KiM Isak Vorgučić kaže da za Danas da ne očekuje da kosovsko tužilaštvo postupi profesionalno i moralno u slučaju ranjavanja dečaka i mladića srpske nacionalnosti u Štrpcu, na koje je za Badnji dan pucao pripadnik Kosovskih bezbednosnih snaga, a kao ključan ističe pritisak albanske javnosti na KiM. S. …
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January 16, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi group, which grew out of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during the first two decades of the 21st century and expanded into Syria following the outbreak of the ongoing civil war there, has remained an international jihadi militant organization despite the loss of its territory in Iraq …
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January 13, 2023 Eurasia
Predictions about the future of war follow narratives and intellectual fashions. At the beginning of the millennium, the emergence of high-tech drones—the U.S. military’s all-seeing eyes in Afghanistan—fueled futuristic visions of battles contested by robots and computers. By the mid-2010s, the success of Russian information operations, election interference, and weaponized …
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January 13, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Macedonia
The atmosphere in the joint North Macedonia-Bulgaria history commission has deteriorated, and if things don’t improve the current deadlock will continue, Petar Todorov, a Macedonian member of the commission, told BIRN. Until the spring of 2018, the members of the history commission with Bulgaria, as it is commonly called in …
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January 13, 2023 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia
Bosnia enters 2023 with a new state government and the fillip of EU candidate status. But will anything really change? To the untrained eye, 2023 might look like a year filled with long-awaited change for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a newly-minted candidate for European Union membership. In truth, say experts, …
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