Eurasia Press & News
Pumping commercial natural gas supplies via the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will not start until a German regulator gives the green light, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, according to TASS news agency. The Nord Stream 2, which would double Russia’s gas exporting capabilities via the Baltic Sea to …
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September, 2021
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13 September
The Hague will have to explain its aid to Syrian militants, Russian diplomat says
The members of the Dutch Parliament found out that official Hague was providing aid to the so-called Sultan Murad division. “Open sources indicate that the ‘division,’ per the UN data, was recruiting teenagers, arming them and dispatching them to fight,” Maria Zakharova pointed out Dutch authorities will have to explain …
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13 September
Syrian army resumes shelling of rebel enclave after collapse of deal
Syrian army units backed by Iranian-backed militias resumed the shelling of a rebel enclave in southern Syria on Sunday after the collapse of Russia-brokered deal to allow the government to reinstate full control over the area. Russian generals brokered the deal late on Tuesday to avert bloody urban warfare after …
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13 September
The Legacy of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”: A Special Series
In September 2021, we launched a special series of articles, reports, videos and podcasts by Crisis Group experts on the impact of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks and the U.S.-led “war on terror”. These cover how Islamist militancy and the military operations aimed at defeating militant groups have both reverberated in Washington …
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13 September
Al-Qaeda’s Virulent Strain in Iraq
My friend Arthur telephoned me one summer morning in 2003, when I had just returned from Iraq, which had fallen into U.S. hands that April. Arthur was head of the refugee program at the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights. A decade earlier, he and I had travelled together to Iraq, …
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11 September
Hungary’s Democracy And Its Denigration In Europe – OpEd
Across Europe a war of ideas and principles has taken place since the European migrant crisis of 2015, when 1.3 million people entered in the European Union space and requested asylum. With a civil strife in the Middle East, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as perilous environments …
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11 September
Russia’s Far East: How To Deal With Demography, Investment And Development Questions – OpEd
Early September the 6th edition of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) under the theme “New Opportunities for the Far East in a Changed World” was held and considered as vital platform for strengthening especially economic ties among Asia-Pacific countries and the Far East region of Russia. It also focused on …
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11 September
Boko Haram And Female Suicide Bombers – Analysis
With the Nigerian government confirming the death of Abu Bakr Shekau, the notorious leader of Boko Haram, in late August 2021, the future of the terrorist group looks bleak with its strength reportedly “significantly weakened” in the recent months.1 Its breakaway faction, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) which has …
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11 September
Religious Power Tends To Corrupt – OpEd
Back in early May of 2020 Israel’s Interior minister urged ‘soul-searching’ in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community citing the very high coronavirus infection rate [60-70% of the sick in the entire country were ultra-Orthodox whereas only 10-12 percent of the general population is ultra-Orthodox]. Now in early September 2021only some 20 …
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11 September
Turkish Imperialism: Erdoğan’s ‘Second Conquest’ Of The Christians – Analysis
On July 10, 2020, Turkey’s high administrative court annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that had turned Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia mosque into a museum, dealing a further blow to the secularist legacy of modern Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Shortly afterward, a presidential decree transferred the site’s ownership from …
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