Eurasia Press & News

Découvertes en cascade de pétrole, renégociation des contrats gaziers et nouveau positionnement stratégique… Alger s’appuie sur ses ressources pour jouer un rôle-clé dans la nouvelle donne énergétique. Dans la région de Sbâa, à 6 km du centre de traitement de Hassi Illatou, dans la wilaya d’Adrar, c’est une nouvelle découverte …

Malgré les inquiétudes des ONG, Kinshasa a lancé un appel d’offres pour l’exploration et l’exploitation de 27 blocs pétroliers et 3 gaziers. Estimant qu’il est temps de saisir l’opportunité d’augmenter significativement les revenus de l’État. Entretien avec Didier Budimbu, le ministre des hydrocarbures. La volonté du gouvernement congolais d’accélérer l’exploration …

On July 25, the Atlantic Council’s Iraq Initiative and Future of Iran Initiative hosted a virtual event titled “Iran and Iraq: The struggle for tenable relations.” Moderated by Masoud Mostajabi, associate director of Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council, the discussion analyzed the political, economic, and cultural ties and …

After eight months of stalemate in the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR), Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his parliamentary bloc to turn in their letters of resignation on June 12 and withdraw from the partially disabled legislature. Even with seventy-three members of parliament out (22 percent of the total members), the institution …

Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he would resign from Iraqi politics on August 29, prompting his followers to storm government palaces in response and sparking fears that violence could erupt in a country already beset by its worst political crisis in years. Iraq’s military announced a nationwide curfew and the …

Le président français a demandé aux diplomates de riposter face aux attaques virales que subit la France sur les réseaux sociaux, notamment en Afrique. Emmanuel Macron a exhorté jeudi les diplomates français à être « plus réactifs » sur les réseaux sociaux pour mieux riposter aux attaques visant à discréditer …

Moscow’s Struggle to Sustain Its War in Ukraine In April, just weeks after he launched the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained that the West could never strangle Russia’s economy. The barrage of American and European sanctions had not succeeded and would not succeed in bringing his country …

The main beneficiaries of the increased revenues will most likely be the office of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and more importantly the IRGC’s elite branch the Quds Force, which carries out extraterritorial operations to advance the revolutionary principles of the Islamic Republic abroad. …

The Road Not Taken After two weeks in Iran during latter part of January 1979, the height of the revolutionary movement against the dynastic, autocratic rule of Mohammed Reza Ayatollah, I had the opportunity for an extended conversation with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in his tent where he received foreign visitors …

In September last year, when the mother and younger brother of Greek-Nigerian NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo were granted honorary Greek citizenship in a special ceremony in Athens, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in attendance. When historian Mark Mazower received the honour in January, Interior Minister Makis Voridis was present, while …