Eurasia

In a huge development and absolute smoking gun revelation, the government of Germany has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked audio recording file published by Russia’s state-backed RT. The leak was first published by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who described that she received it from Russian security officials. It first …

Key Takeaways: Northern Gaza Strip: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued to operate in the northern and central Gaza Strip on March 2. Hamas targeted Israeli forces in Zaytoun with rocket-propelled grenades and explosively-formedSouthern Gaza Strip: The IDF 89th Commando Brigade (98th Division) continued to conduct clearing operations in western …

Tehran, wary of igniting open warfare with Washington, has told militia groups it backs to curtail assaults on targets such as military installations, Iranian and American officials say. Iran has made a concerted effort to rein in militias in Iraq and Syria after the United States retaliated with a series …

For the past several years, US interests have drifted away from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to focus on national security issues in the Pacific and — now — Europe. Unfortunately, the security situation in the Middle East and events like Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, strikes by Iranian-linked groups …

Somalia and Türkiye recently agreed to a ten-year defense deal that will see Ankara helping Mogadishu with security cooperation and building the capacity of its naval forces. While both Somalia and Türkiye have said that their agreement was long in the works and unrelated to the January deal between Ethiopia …

The Houthi movement of Yemen has continued attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea despite U.S.-led “dynamic” strikes on Houthi weaponry being readied for launch. The current U.S. and allied approach assumes that the Houthi arsenal can be degraded to the point where the attacks stop. The lack of clear …

Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as media outlets go out of their way to obscure the perpetrators of genocide. Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in …

An Iranian military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli attack in Syria’s Baniyas. The Iranian advisor, Colonel Reza Zare’e, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Syria’s western port city of Baniyas. Citing eyewitnesses, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported that three …

An alleged spy for China living in Istanbul evaded detection by Turkish authorities for years, Sadiq Memeteziz’s undercover work taking him to Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Xinjiang in China’s far-west, Turkish media reports said, citing official documents. Memeteziz, or Shadeke Maimaitiaizazi in Chinese, was one of six …

Hamas seems intent on building up a fighting force inside Lebanon. Early last December news emerged of a large-scale recruitment drive by Hamas in and around the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Dubbed “The Al-Aqsa Flood” – in line with the name given to the October 7 massacre – the …