The U.S. military base in the al-Omar field was targeted by missiles again, a frequent occurrence this week, according to al-Watan. On Wednesday, the U.S. occupation base in the al-Omar oil field in the northern countryside of Deir-ez-Zor was targeted by missiles. This development led to intense fires in the …

Barely a week into the new year and the faint hopes that optimists might have harboured for meaningful progress to be made towards a peaceful settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict this year are bound to have already been extinguished by the latest round of illegal Israeli settlement building in the …

The unrest in Kazakhstan, the tensions around Ukraine and the need to have a credible European policy vis-à-vis Russia dominated the main event at the inauguration of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU – the press conference by French President Emmanuel Macron and Commission chief Ursula von …

Sparked by a small protest over a fuel price increase in the western oil town of Zhanaozen a few days earlier, angry crowds flooded the streets and squares of Kazakhstan’s major towns and cities on January 5, shouting their discontent with the authoritarian government’s domestic policies. Alarmed by the scale …

It may be a cliché, but Kazakhstan’s ongoing dramatic crisis recalls one of Lenin’s most famous quotes, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Kazakhstan has for many years seen neither political change nor steady economic growth, with a regime dominated by kleptocratic elite …

On December 14 two Typhoon fighter aircraft of the UK’s Royal Air Force were patrolling over Syria and Iraq, when they noticed an unidentified drone flying towards allied troops on the ground at the al-Tanf coalition base, in Syria. Deeming the drone a threat, the RAF conducted its first air-to-air …

President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has issued a stark warning to protesters in Kazakhstan that he has given security personnel a green light to “shoot to kill” even as the nation’s police forces, bolstered by a Russian-led troop contingent, appeared to be in control of most cities in Kazakhstan after dozens were …

The whispering in Moscow is that Putin will try to tempt Biden with a number of promises. These include persuading the Islamic Republic in Iran to re-endorse the Obama “nuclear deal”, which President Donald Trump denounced as a sham. Tehran’s acceptance of a new version presented by the US would …

Les États d’Afrique de l’Ouest ont adopté dimanche 9 janvier des sanctions «très dures» en raison du non-respect par la junte au pouvoir au Mali de l’échéance de février pour des élections ramenant les civils à la tête du paysSanctions supplémentaires : 1 retrait des ambassadeurs de tous les états …

4e SOMMET EXTRAORDINAIREDE L’AUTORITE DES CHEFS D’ETAT ET DE GOUVERNEMENT DE LA CEDEAO SUR LA SITUATION AU MALIAccra, République du Ghana 9 janvier 2022PROJET DE COMMUNIQUE L’Autorité des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement de la Direction Economique La Communauté des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) s’est réunie en session …