Eurasia Press & News

The Russian invasion of Ukraine “is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price recently declared. “There are principles that are at stake here … Each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, has a sovereign right …

Lavish Ramadan gatherings by Turkey’s ruling party have fueled public outrage amid staggering inflation and skyrocketing prices. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits different households during the holy month of Ramadan. This year, the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) special focus is on the youth, as the youth vote …

In a critically timed spring offensive, Turkey has hit dozens of targets associated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party and killed 19 fighters. In a new offensive, Turkish military forces struck a dozen suspected targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. …

I spoke with Sean, our Editor-in-Chief, about writing about a scenario where Russia wins in Ukraine. The challenge for me is that I don’t think Putin takes Ukraine in as a whole. The people are just too resilient. Ukraine is also getting better armed and supplied by the day. Their …

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, one of Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers, warned that Russia would arm nukes in the Baltic region if Finland and Sweden joined NATO. The threat came after Finnish politicians hinted at the growing likelihood that the country would join the alliance. Finland shares the longest land …

Ten jailed al-Qaida militants have escaped from prison in Yemen’s eastern province of Hadramawt, security officials said on Friday. The inmates staged a quarrel among themselves late Thursday at the prison in the city of Seiyun, forcing guards to intervene. But when they did, the prisoners overpowered them, seizing their …

At least 11 people, including nine schoolteachers, were killed in a head-on crash south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The crash on Saturday occurred as the group was returning home in a mini-van from an Iftar meal in the Shiite holy city of Karbala. The accident occurred due to …

Iran has confirmed that it relocated a facility housing centrifuges used for uranium enrichment to its underground Natanz nuclear site. The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi, said in an interview with Iran’s al-Alam TV on late on Saturday that the “centrifuge machines were moved …

Israeli security forces and Arab worshippers clashed on Sunday morning at the Temple Mount, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is located, as some of the Arab worshippers prepared to throw stones and block entrances to the site to prevent Jewish pilgrims from visiting for the first intermediary day of Passover. …

Much before the Ukraine war this year, several internationally renowned foreign policy experts, including retired senior officials and other persons close to the establishment in the USA and its western allies, have been warning that a policy of excessive hostility towards Russia, persistent interference in Ukraine to strengthen its opposition …