Eurasia Press & News

In Libya, a new conflict is flaring up: Companions of the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar, who recently met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, tried on May 28 to take control of oil production. This internal conflict entails a clash of interests of larger players. After …

The benefits and losses among Russian enterprises are distributed extremely unevenly, the beginning of 2025 showed. Not only did the overall “pie” of profits become smaller, and it was divided differently – banks and some industries receiving military orders, but many other sectors lost. Trade has fallen significantly (the Russians …

Lors d’une rencontre récente avec Friedrich Merz à la Maison-Blanche, Trump a revendiqué avoir «arrêté» ou «mis fin» au projet Nord Stream 2 pendant son premier mandat, notamment par des sanctions économiques. Il a déclaré : «Je suis celui qui a arrêté la construction de Nord Stream 2 vers un …

Le ministère de la Défense russe communique : «Kiev attaque les terrains d’aviation de cinq régions russes. Pas de victimes signalées ni chez les militaires ni chez les civils». Selon les informations diffusées par Kiev (reportées par le Wall Street Journal), l’attaque a été menée de cette façon : «L’agence …

Trump est silencieux depuis deux jours. C’est sans précédent. Ces derniers jours, l’Ukraine et ses facilitateurs ont tenté une attaque massive contre la force de bombardement nucléaire stratégique de la Russie ; ont réussi à exploser deux ponts sur des trains civils se dirigeant vers Moscou ; ont attaqué le …

In the uneasy interstice between war and peace, Syria grapples with a question striking at the heart of national sovereignty, social cohesion, and institutional legitimacy: what to do with thousands of foreign jihadist fighters who can neither be expelled nor ignored. The recent move to integrate roughly 3,500 of these …

In a wide-ranging talk, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford traced the astonishing political transformation unfolding in Damascus: from a 14-year civil war and the December 2024 collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the rise of Ahmed al-Sharaa—a former jihadist commander now serving as Syria’s transitional president. Ford began …

Several days have passed since a ground assault targeted Russia’s Hemeimeem airbase on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, yet neither Moscow nor Damascus has issued any official statement clarifying the incident. Behind the silence, however, it is widely believed that high-level, behind-the-scenes communications have taken place to address not only the attack …

While progress has been made between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and the Syrian Transitional Government on several issues—including a new agreement announced today concerning the Al-Hol camp—deep disagreements remain over the core issue of governance: centralization versus decentralization. Agreement to Repatriate Syrians from Al-Hol Camp …

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 marked a watershed moment in Middle Eastern geopolitics. Abrupt and largely unforeseen by both regional and international actors, Assad’s fall brought an end to decades of autocratic rule and the relative stability that had defined Syria since Hafez al-Assad seized power …