February 27, 2026 Africa, Eurasia
Le président israélien Isaac Herzog est arrivé ce 24 février en Éthiopie pour une visite de deux jours. Au menu notamment, une rencontre avec son homologue éthiopien Taye Atske-Selassie, mais aussi avec le Premier ministre Abiy Ahmed. Pour Israël, dont les relations avec ses partenaires africains se sont délitées depuis …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia
Selon plusieurs rapports et témoignages, la Russie recruterait des soldats en Afrique pour partir au front en Ukraine. Une information démentie par le Kremlin. “Vous devriez avoir honte d’envoyer quelqu’un au front, car cette guerre ne nous concerne pas, et ne nous concernera jamais”. Interrogé par l’AFP, le père d’un …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia
T.S. Eliot écrivait : « …C’est ainsi que finit le monde, non pas dans un fracas, mais dans un murmure. » On s’attend à ce qu’un bruit accompagne tout effondrement, toute fin, tout apogée – mais on était loin d’imaginer que le son de la fin de la superpuissance militaire …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Young people in Palestine are accused of being ignorant of their past. But the truth may be that they are more aware of their present than anyone else. Palestinian youth are a foreign country; they do things differently there—not because they reject politics, but because the political institutions around them …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Iran’s IRGC said it killed or arrested at least 100 MEK fighters during clashes near Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Tehran headquarters, with MEK confirming the incident and reporting heavy losses. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed or arrested at least 100 fighters from Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) in clashes on Monday …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
As foreign policy luminaries rush to warn about the perils of a U.S. attack on Iran, there is widespread confidence in the White House that President Donald Trump can manage a strike’s fallout. This confidence reflects a years-long pattern that has shaped Trump’s thinking. Washington’s foreign policy establishment warns the …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia
Hungary is holding the EU’s 20th sanctions package on Russia “hostage”, a senior adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Euractiv, as Budapest continues to veto Brussels’ latest round of restrictive measures against Moscow. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the Ukrainian president’s sanctions envoy, said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s refusal to approve the package is …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia
Countries such as Hungary and Slovakia must be able to be overtaken in decision-making when the EU’s security is to be decided now and in the future, writes Juha Ristamäki. European leaders, including President of Finland Alexander Stubb, travelled to Kiev on Tuesday on the anniversary of the war of …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Internal Security Forces in Raqqa governorate announced they had dismantled a cell affiliated with the Islamic State group, which they said was behind two attacks that targeted a security checkpoint west of Raqqa city (northern Syria) over the past two days, killing four personnel and wounding others. Raqqa Internal Security …
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February 27, 2026 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Je vous prie de m’excuser. J’aurais dû le signaler la semaine dernière. S’il est vrai que Donald Trump a déployé la plus grande flotte d’avions de combat américains en Asie occidentale/au Moyen-Orient depuis George W. Bush au début de l’année 2003, deux autres indicateurs clés signalant une attaque imminente ne …
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