Eurasia

Les signaux contradictoires en provenance des États-Unis se succèdent à une telle vitesse qu’il est impossible de les relayer tous par écrit. Le Wall Street Journal nous informe que le président américain a approuvé des frappes à longue portée contre la Russie. Donald Trump, avec son expansivité habituelle, dément : …

Deux décennies après la chute du régime de Saddam Hussein, l’Irak reste un pays de profondes contradictions et de défis complexes. Jeune démocratie fragile, née dans le feu de l’invasion américaine et forgée au creuset des violences sectaires, elle est aujourd’hui confrontée à un enchevêtrement de problèmes interdépendants. Le système …

Le «président de la paix» préfère se créer de nombreux ennemis. Cela fait neuf mois que Donald Trump est président et la voie à suivre semble assez claire. Le budget insoutenable d’un trillion de dollars du Pentagone soutient un département de la Guerre récemment rebaptisé, et Washington est engagé dans …

In a matter of months, the Trump administration has rewritten the rules of U.S. trade policy. It has imposed blanket tariffs on nearly every country, starting at ten percent and rising as high as 50 percent. Levies on a host of products, such as steel, aluminum, cars, and car parts, …

Kurdistan Region’s President, Nechirvan Barzani, in a meeting with Iraq’s Army Chief, stressed the continued need for Coalition support to fight ISIS, even as Peshmerga-Army cooperation improves. In a clear and forceful appeal for sustained international partnership, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday declared that both Iraq and the …

‘Autocrats help autocrats’ At the end of 2021, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged 100 million euros for Republika Srpska. At the time of the announcement, the aid sparked public debate in Bosnia and Herzegovina about whether the funds would come with strings attached, a possible quid pro quo from …

Clashes broke out this week between Syrian government forces and fighters in a camp in northern Syria’s Idlib province led by an internationally wanted French militant. The clashes come at a delicate moment, as Syria’s interim authorities are trying to decide how to handle the presence of thousands of Islamist …

Syrian forces on Wednesday launched an operation against jihadists in a camp in the northwest region near the Turkish border in a bid to capture French fighters wanted by French authorities. Foreign jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight with Islamist militias during the civil war have fallen out of …

What does solidarity truly mean – especially in contexts where ethnonationalism is deeply entrenched? This question has guided much of my work as a community organizer, creating inter-ethnic spaces for Balkan diasporas in the UK. As someone with roots in Kosovo, I’ve often faced the erasure of my identity – …

Türkiye has been a chief geostrategic beneficiary of the setbacks to Iran and its “Axis of Resistance,” but its expanded regional influence has fueled new tensions with another regional power, Israel. Türkiye and Israel, despite some fundamental differences, recognize each other’s interests and respect their separate close relations with the …