Friday, 29 March , 2024

Central Asia

Youth in revolt: Les Misérables—and other films: Made in Bangladesh, Mariam,...

Toronto International Film Festival 2019: Part 6 By David Walsh 2 October 2019 This is the sixth and final part in a series of articles devoted...

An Israeli BESA analysis. Ηow the West (and Israel) want to...

A Russian-Western Rapprochement? By Emil Avdaliani October 20, 2019 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,316, October 22, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There have been hints over recent months of...

Greeks Beware of a Silent Operation Mercury II

We publish below an extremely interesting and important article by Phil Butler.. We are not in position to confirm the veracity of the claims contained...

US complain Russians do not let them dominate the Middle East!!!

Russia ‘threatens our ability to dominate’ – US general to Congress 28 Feb, 2018 The US is seeking to contain Iran’s rising influence in the Middle...

Eurasia can find a way to do away with the Dollar

20.03.2017 The most optimistic development on the world stage that I have seen in decades is what's coming out of Eurasia, especially out of China...

Trump, Blackwater and Afghanistan

Will Blackwater Replace the World’s Most Powerful Military to Win Afghan War? By Masud Wadan Established in 1997, the Blackwater private security company was not so...

Russia for withdrawal of US Troops from Afghanistan

U.S. should pull out of Afghanistan: Russian envoy MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan has failed and Washington should...

Afghanistan and its region. Α view from Russia

By Tayyab Baloch Moscow has formulated trilateral mechanisms aimed at seeking regional stability through solving the Afghanistan crisis with the help of regional neighboring countries....

Obama extends global reach of US Special Operations death squads

Obama has approved a proposal to give JSOC independent authority to operate outside the regional commands, essentially as a globalized assassination force. JSOC units will bypass the regional commanders and report directly to Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the Pentagon.

THE EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT

According to some very recent official Syrian sources, last April over 5,000 jihadists entered from the Turkish border, heading for Idlib and Aleppo. They include an undefined – albeit considerable - number of Uyghurs coming from the Chinese Xinjiang. Allegedly the technical and operational support to this new jihad was provided by the Turkish services and special