Eurasia Press & News

Will the Continent Ever Get Serious About Its Own Security? It is not yet clear if Ukraine will win the war, but Russia is definitely losing. On every metric of national power, Moscow’s position has worsened since the invasion began, and that change has already shifted the position of other …

Syrian president sees no need to compromise, while UN representative admits ‘comprehensive solution is not doable.’ The 20th round of the Astana peace talks kicked off in the Kazakh capital Astana today with normalization between Turkey and Syria high on the agenda. However, there were few signs of progress, as …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Oman on Tuesday to meet with Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi as part of his Gulf tour that began in Doha. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian landed in Kuwait on Wednesday where he met Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. The …

French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian’s visit to Beirut comes as parliament failed for the 12th time to elect a president. French President Emmanuel Macron’s new special envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, the state-run National News Agency reported. According to the agency, the former foreign …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s overtures to Beijing remain a double edged sword.The visit will give a huge moral and strategic win for Beijing, and further weakens Washington’s standing, being looked as weak and desperate. The first top level meeting in Alaska in 2021 has played well into Beijing’s …

The White House is not backing down on comments made by President Joe Biden likening Chinese President Xi Jinping to a dictator. “It should come as no surprise that the president speaks candidly about China and the differences that we have — we are certainly not alone in that,” a …

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said he expects to secure almost $7 billion in aid for reconstruction, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv needs concrete commitments for projects that will help post-war development and further modernization. Shmyhal told the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London on June 21 that the war …

The continuation of the war in Ukraine has caused important changes in the geopolitics of the peripheral regions and the axis of Eurasia, which is one of the most visible and noisy by a little distance in Central Asia, a region that plays an important role in the historical and …

Turkey has escalated drone attacks on Kurdish-held regions of north and northeast Syria this week, killing 16 people including one civilian in a single day, a war monitor said Thursday. The strikes mostly targeted Kurdish-held Tal Rifaat and Manbij in the country’s north near the Turkish border, areas Ankara has …

A Detroit-area man who was captured on a Syrian battlefield in 2018 fighting for Islamic State was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison. Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli of Dearborn was convicted in January of providing support to a designated terrorist organization. “For his betrayal of our nation and his fellow …