Eurasia Press & News

SFJ’s Pannun was target, reports FT; India takes US inputs seriously, being examined, says MEA THE UNITED States “thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate” Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil and “issued a warning to India’s government over concerns it was involved in the plot,” UK-based daily Financial Times …

The War in Gaza and the Search for Security In a barbaric surprise attack launched by Hamas on October 7, more Jews were slaughtered than on any day since the Holocaust. Thousands of elite Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated small communities and cities in southern Israel, where they …

Les forces d’occupation israéliennes se sont retirées, dimanche soir 19 novembre 2023, de plusieurs fronts dans la ville de Gaza ainsi que du nord de l’enclave palestinienne, après des combats avec les factions de la résistance palestinienne. Des sources locales ont déclaré que les véhicules militaires israéliens se sont retirés …

Shared support for Hamas likely means better diplomatic relations between Moscow and Ankara. But any warming of ties will only be situational.The latest period of tension between Russia and Turkey appears to have come to an end. It was just a few months ago that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan …

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia actively borrowed Western—primarily European—legal and bureaucratic practices. Now that the European path appears to be closed off entirely, the Middle East is fast emerging as an alternative route.Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Moscow’s subsequent rupture with the West, the Middle …

The announcement of EU candidate status is both a boon for Georgia and a geopolitical challenge, given possible retaliation from Russia.The European Union recommended on November 8 that Georgia be granted its long-awaited candidate status, an essential step to future membership of the bloc. The recommendation is, however, contingent on …

Moscow’s rapprochement with Hamas and the subsequent deterioration in ties with Israel signals the failure of Russia’s long-standing goal of appearing as a great power by acting as a mediator in the Middle East.Israel is an important partner for Russia in the Middle East, but amid the war in Gaza …

Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein worries that the conflict in Gaza will drag on and expand beyond Israel’s borders. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said the United States needs to put more pressure on Israel to end the conflict in Gaza, just as Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani urges Shiite …

Ukrainian successes in driving Russian naval vessels away from Odessa offer important lessons for US Navy strategy. In an extraordinary, but little noticed development in the war in the Ukraine, Vice Admiral Oleksly Neizhpapa, head of Ukraine’s Navy, indicated on November 12 that his country had broken the Russian naval …

The proliferation of cheap but effective UAVs will allow even the least sophisticated armed groups to wreak havoc. Yemen faces a drone doom loop that is a harbinger of things to come for many countries. The increasingly rapid diffusion of drone technology offers endless new opportunities for non-state, near-state, and …