Eurasia

Latest Developments Netanyahu Announces Massive Gas Deal: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the signing of a gas deal with Egypt on December 17 valued at approximately $35 billion. Hailing the agreement as the “largest gas deal in Israel’s history,” Netanyahu asserted that the “deal greatly strengthens Israel’s status as …

Unsurprisingly, the National Security Strategy (NSS) has set off a storm across the Atlantic. The German chancellor called parts of the document “unacceptable,” while the president of the European Council warned that Europeans must now “protect themselves even against the allies who defy them.” For Manfred Weber, head of the …

The Arab world was already badly divided when recent wars and military conflicts broke out between state actors and between them and nonstate actors in 2023. But paradoxically, these tremors have created conditions that led to almost unprecedented coordination and diplomatic activism among key Arab states, along with a willingness …

US and Jordanian forces have launched an operation against ISIS in Syria, killing at least five members of the extremist group including a cell leader, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The US strikes overnight on Friday were a response to an attack in Palmyra last …

Syria has seized drones and explosives from a suspected ISIS hideout in Damascus, in a swoop it said “confirms” it is capable of fighting extremists. The raid, in which a suspected member of ISIS was arrested, was one of two against the group announced in the space of 24 hours. …

« Palestine 36 » nous rappelle avec force que le plan des crimes de guerre abjects commis par Israël à Gaza a été élaboré par un empire britannique dont les Palestiniens ont tenté – en vain – de mettre fin à la tyrannie. Quiconque s’interroge sur les raisons pour lesquelles …

A guide to diagnosing the trajectory of democracy around the world in 2026. During the past several years, the trajectory of global democracy has been hovering uncertainly between two paths. On one side, many countries continue to backslide. At the same time, a small but growing number appear to have …

Latest Developments Erdogan Accuses Israel of Seeking ‘Fragmentation’ of Syria: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan labeled Israel the “primary obstacle” to a stable Syria on December 16, pledging that Ankara would continue to support the Ahmed al-Sharaa-led government responsible for ousting former dictator Bashar al-Assad from power in late 2024. …

While everyone focuses on tankers transferring the Iranian oil, a massive financial valve remains open to Tehran on NATO’s eastern border. On paper, Iran is entering its most restrictive sanctions environment since 2012. United Nations snapback has reactivated global measures on Iran’s energy trade, but Western enforcement remains partial. And …

France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office in Paris has requested that the court impose a 1.125 million euro fine on the cement company Lafarge and sentence eight of its former senior executives to prison terms of up to eight years. The toughest prison sentence requested by prosecutors concerned Syrian intermediary Firas …