Eurasia Press & News

2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country’s indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there’s a distinct risk of even worse to come this year. Still, there …

The performance at the Hague bodes ill for international law Since the early 1600s, the Bavarian town of Oberammergau has, once a decade, mounted a massive Passion Play, dramatically re-enacting Jesus’s trial and crucifixion. Spread over five hours and with a cast of thousands, it has for centuries attracted audiences …

What seemed at first to be the start of a Third World War has turned out to be more akin to a Second Yugoslav War: a local conflict on the edge of Europe triggered by a slow-motion imperial collapse. Throughout 2022, Europe was in shock. It turned out that Russia, …

Technology and the Element of Surprise Can Put Russia on the Back Foot For Ukraine, the full-scale war against Russia has been extremely difficult. During the first year, Russia incurred huge losses to Ukraine, and Kyiv was able to liberate roughly half of all the territory Moscow took in its …

Iran and Its Allies Are Fighting With Missiles and Memes On January 12, the United Kingdom and the United States launched military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. These attacks were a response to the group’s assaults on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which have disrupted global trade. The …

They say you can’t kill an idea and maybe they’re right. Among Hitler’s ideas: murdering Jews – every man, woman, and child. Early in World War II, Winston Churchill observed that the deliberate and systematic destruction of a people was a “crime without a name.” But in 1944, Raphael Lemkin, …

Pendant les cent jours de guerre d’Israël contre tous les habitants de Gaza, les membres de l’axe de résistance ont répondu à l’assaut. Le Hamas à Gaza a attaqué avec succès les forces d’invasion israéliennes. Hier encore, il a lancé des missiles depuis le nord de Gaza vers Israël. Le …

Est-ce une coïncidence si la plus grande organisation terroriste au monde renaît alors que les USA sont soumis à un assaut sur plusieurs fronts contre leur hégémonie en Asie de l’Ouest ? Des sources de sécurité irakiennes mettent en garde contre un renouveau d’ISIS dans le pays, qui coïncide trop …

Le Corps des Gardiens de la Révolution islamique (CGRI) a révélé plus de détails sur ses récentes attaques de missiles contre des bases terroristes anti-iraniennes et des centres d’espionnage en Syrie et dans la région du Kurdistan irakien. Dans un nouveau communiqué publié mardi 16 janvier, le CGRI a déclaré …

Is a wider Middle East war — expanding beyond the borders of Gaza and Israel — inevitable? The question is in sharp focus following a series of dramatic escalations around the region in the last few days: targeted killings of Hamas and Hezbollah commanders in Lebanon, a powerful Hezbollah attack …