Eurasia Press & News

The Obama administration’s longtime sceptics of a Syria strike have reversed their position, defense secretary Chuck Hagel testified to the Senate on Tuesday. Hagel, a former senator and a Vietnam combat veteran, put aside his previous hesitations about another entanglement in the Middle East and told the Senate foreign relations …

Thousands of supporters of overthrown Islamist president Mohamed Morsi took to the streets in towns and cities across Egypt on Tuesday evening to denounce Egypt’s new military-backed rulers – their second show of mass

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday that no agreement had yet been reached on the strategic Prevlaka peninsula, which both countries have claimed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. After a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart Filip Vujanovic, Josipovic said that the two governments were still actively trying to resolve the …

Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina will on Thursday sign an agreement on mutual extradition of citizens charged and convicted for criminal acts of organized crime. The agreement will include corruption and money laundering charges, the

French President Francois Hollande says European leaders will meet in the coming days, on the sidelines of the G20 summit to be held Thursday and Friday in St. Petersburg, to discuss Syria. Hollande did not rule out a vote on

Syrian forces seized the strategic northern town of Ariha on Tuesday, an opposition group said, in a move that would open the supply line between the coastal stronghold and pockets of army control in a region that is largely rebel controlled.

The Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, T.C.A. Raghavan met with Adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security, Sartaj Aziz at the Foreign Office on Tuesday to discuss situation at the Line of Control (Loc) and other matters of mutual interest.

“Up to present the number of the refugees from Syria runs to 1,400,” said Bulgarian Minister of Interior Affairs Tsvetlin Yovchev said at a briefing. Minister Yovchev is head of the National

Resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains a challenge for Georgia and the entire region, Georgian FM said on Monday.

Georgian Prime Minister says his country needs to strengthen bilateral political and economic cooperation with Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Addressing the annual 3-day meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions to Georgia that kicked off Monday, Sept 2, Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili reminded