Eurasia Press & News

A UN document said Khalid Batarfi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) for just under a year, was arrested and his deputy, Saad Atef al-Awlaqi, died during an “operation in Ghayda City, Al-Mahrah Governorate, in October.”

The Iraqi prime minister has used Issawi’s killing to restore the public’s trust in the government and security forces, which had declined following two security setbacks in Baghdad and Saladin.

The leader of al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has been under arrest for several months, the United Nations disclosed Thursday in a development that may have opened up a goldmine of information for counterterrorism agencies in their campaign against the global al Qaeda network.

The U.N. Security Council requested the secretary-general on Thursday to swiftly deploy an advance team to Libya as a first step to sending monitors to observe an October cease-fire between the country’s warring parties. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recommended in late December that international monitors be deployed to Libya, under a …

Two independent experts say a German company hired to fix the sewage issues of the Montenegrin tourist town of Budva overcharged by millions of euros. More than a decade after the contract was signed, much of the sewage still flows into the sea.

New research demonstrates that it makes no political sense whatsoever for France to block candidate countries in the Western Balkans on their path to EU membership.

Voters in Kosovo will go to the polling stations in February 14 to elect a new parliament with – as in past elections – the candidates running for the post of Prime Minister in the spotlight.

A 100 million-euro recapitalisation of Serbia’s national airline, Air Serbia, is just the latest injection of taxpayer funds into the struggling company. But how many Serbian citizens know it?

The news follows reports of suspected Israeli airstrikes against Iranian and Syrian military targets in the country in December and January. Suspected Israeli airstrikes hit southern Syria late Wednesday evening.

Officials in Tehran renewed calls for an end to the American military presence in neighboring Iraq as a response to the US killing of Iran’s top commander Qasem Soleimani. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the ouster of American forces from neighboring Iraq would be “the best response” to …