Eurasia Press & News

The Biden administration plans to reject an Iranian demand that the United States lift its designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization as a condition for renewing the 2015 nuclear agreement — putting completion of the deal in jeopardy. A senior administration official told me that …

The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security official said on Saturday. Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, is Syria’s largest camp for displaced people. It houses about 56,000 including displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees, some of whom maintain …

Iraqi airstrikes killed at least 70 ISIS militants over the past three months, according to a top security official. Even though Iraq carries out regular airstrikes and operations against ISIS militants, the group still “pose a threat” in northern, eastern, and western provinces, including Diyala, Kirkuk, southwest Nineveh, Anbar, and …

Frankreichs Präsident Macron muss in der Stichwahl beweisen, dass er in seiner Amtszeit etwas gelernt hat. Denn viele haben genug von ihm. Er muss seinen Landsleuten nun mehr anbieten: Dialog und Demut. Es ist tatsächlich fünf vor zwölf. Die Rechtspopulistin Marine Le Pen könnte die Stichwahl gewinnen. Frankreich Präsident Emmanuel …

Le danger populiste, même s’il est écarté au second tour cette fois-ci, ne fera que revenir l’élection suivante, en plus menaçant, si aucune réforme de fond n’est faite. Le politologue Jérôme Sainte-Marie l’avait prédit : le clivage gauche/droite est en train d’être supplanté par celui entre un bloc élitaire et …

Italian Premier Mario Draghi secured a deal Monday for more natural gas imports across a Mediterranean pipeline from Algeria, marking the latest push by a European Union nation to reduce dependence on Russian energy following its invasion of Ukraine. After meeting with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Draghi told reporters in the …

OPEC told the European Union on Monday that current and future sanctions on Russia could create one of the worst ever oil supply shocks and it would be impossible to replace those volumes, and signalled it would not pump more. European Union officials held talks in Vienna with representatives of …

Hamas and Islamic Jihad are coordinating policies and activities, stepping up attacks in the West Bank while trying to avoid direct confrontation in Gaza. Hamas has made concerted efforts to contain the anger of the Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip, and to prevent it from engaging in a …

There is no other country in the world other than Turkey that is fighting so many global terrorist organizations at the same time, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said Sunday. In his speech at the iftar dinner held on the occasion of the 177th anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish …

Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street. But the United States and its allies have waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities, towns …