by CBBSS | Oct 31, 2020 | Regional News
A Russian airliner crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on board, BBC reports. Egyptian officials say 214 of the passengers were Russian and three were Ukrainian. Read original...
by CBBSS | Oct 31, 2020 | International News and Analysis
Paul Goble of windows-on-eurasia examines the blowback from Putin’s adventure in Syria and says that with ISIS declaring jihad against Russia, Putin will have to fight the jihadist international much closer to home than Syria, something he has not foreseen....
by CBBSS | Oct 30, 2020 | International News and Analysis
The new shift in U.S. strategy in combating ISIS involving deploying a small number of special forces with the Kurds and other allies in northern Syria could easily to lead to a conflict with Turkey. Read original...
by CBBSS | Oct 30, 2020 | Regional News
RFE/RL cites a video published by Ukraine Today in which a Russian member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OCSE) mission to Eastern Ukraine gets drunk and says a little too much. OSCE fired the Russian monitor after he said on camera...
by CBBSS | Oct 30, 2020 | Regional News
The EU and U.S. have announced they are temporarily lifting some of the sanctions on Belarus, Reuters reports. Brussels and Washington are attempting to lure Minsk and longtime Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko away from the grip of Russia and closer to the...