Eurasia

What’s new? The U.S. government is conducting a formal review of its counter-terrorism direct action operations – ie, those that involve kill or capture. But it is not clear that the review will shed light on key questions about the effectiveness of militarised counter-terrorism efforts or recommend major changes. Why does …

Senior officials from China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran reached a consensus on Thursday to step up communication and coordination on the Afghan issue, Reuters reported. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Assistant to Iranian Foreign Minister …

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum recently revealed that over the past four years, thirty-one “late-stage” terror plots were thwarted by British authorities. The Taliban victory in Afghanistan is likely to embolden UK-based Islamic extremists and McCallum warned that recent events have provided a morale boost to jihadists and their supporters. …

The Taliban has announced that its government aims to establish ties and diplomatic relations with all countries of the world, except for Israel. According to the group’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen, who spoke to the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, the group will even allow relations to develop with the United …

The future of Algeria’s gas pipeline which supplies southern Spain via Morocco is shrouded in mystery as the diplomatic row between Rabat and Algiers persists and the contractual deadline for using the transit pipeline looms. Yesterday, Algeria’s state-owned oil company, Sonatrach, announced that it had increased the annual transmission capacity …

One of the clauses of the February 2020 agreement between the Taliban and the United States (U.S.) made it obligatory on the insurgents to prevent the soil of Afghanistan from being used by global terror groups like the al Qaeda against the U.S. and its allies. Just like the Trump …

Casado y las eléctricas han reaccionado indignados contra el plan del Gobierno para reducir el precio de la luz. Acusan a Sánchez de intervenir el mercado, cuando lo que hay es un oligopolio de manual y un sistema escandaloso de fijación de precios que contravienen las normas más elementales del …

France has recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia after Australia ended a deal to buy French submarines in favor of one to pursue nuclear-powered vessels using U.S. technology. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a written statement Friday that the move “is justified by the exceptional …

Już za tydzień czekają nas w Niemczech wybory, które po 16 latach rządów Angeli Merkel mogą doprowadzić u naszego zachodniego sąsiada do znaczących politycznych przetasowań. Jeśli w ciągu najbliższych kilku dni nie wydarzy się żadna nowa katastrofa, wybory parlamentarne wygrają socjaldemokraci i ich kandydat na kanclerza Olaf Scholz, a przyszła …