Eurasia Press & News

Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into …

More than 2,580 Syrian combatants had been sent to back Baku in total, of whom 293 have died, according to the SOHR monitoring group. More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian mercenaries have returned to Syria since the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for …

The regime has given licences to two Russian companies, which allow them to explore for oil in Syria writes The Levant News. On Tuesday, the Syrian regime granted a license to the two Russian companies, Mercury and Vilada, for oil exploration in Syria, so that Russia could further spread its …

As they withdraw from more points that are surrounded by the Syrian army, Turkish forces send additional troops and resources in Idleb reports Al-Masdar. The Turkish Armed Forces sent a large convoy of reinforcements to the northwestern region of Syria on Monday, coinciding with their recent withdrawals from areas surrounded …

How does the movie compare to a real life war experience? Halfway through the film Mosul I found myself looking at my phone. This wasn’t because I was bored. It was because I wanted to find a photo of burned cars piled on top of one another. The film had …

Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups helped retrieve the bodies, the two officials said, without elaborating or giving the exact time of the incident. BAGHDAD – An airstrike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on …

Fear of a possible war with Iran is growing after the assassination of the man believed to be responsible for Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The simmering fear among Middle East watchers that President Donald Trump might attack Iran in the waning days of his presidency was inflamed on Friday when …

Does Turkey want to work with Hamas and bash Israel or ‘normalize’ relations with the Jewish state? Turkey’s far-right government has hosted Hamas leaders twice this year – and backed claims that “Jerusalem is ours” and that it will “liberate” al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control – but now it wants …

FM Ashkenazi hails Central European nation for joining growing list of countries blacklisting Iranian-backed group in its entirety, calls on EU to follow suit Slovenia on Monday designated Hezbollah in its entirety a terrorist organization, joining a growing number of European states who have taken similar steps in recent weeks …

Rivals from war-torn Libya started a new round of talks in Morocco on Monday as part of stepped-up efforts to bring an end to a decade of conflict. The two days of talks in the northern port city of Tangier bring together 13 representatives each from Libya’s House of Representatives …