PYD Co-chair Ready to Talk to Turkey, Regime

Saleh Muslim, the co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), said on Wednesday that they are ready for dialogue with all parties including Turkey to solve the Syrian crisis.

Muslim told North Press, “We welcome all parties that want to solve the Syrian crisis and the Kurdish issue.”

Refugee Resentment on Rise as Poland’s Poorest Squeezed by Cost-of-Living Crisis

Poles are feeling the effects of the cost-of-living rise, though what damage this will do to the ruling party’s popularity ahead of next year’s election is still unclear.

At the Rozycki Bazaar in the North Prague district of the Polish capital, the mood is bleak. The market has existed for 150 years, but the owners of stalls think its days may be finally numbered.

In Impoverished North Albania, a Muslim’s Path to Radicalism

Ibrahim El Salih lost his job and his daughter and grew increasing belligerent in his social media posts. Then he was arrested for “encouraging terrorist acts”.

Ibrahim El Salih used to work as an inspector for the Protection of Territory at his local municipality in Kukes, a small town in northern Albania. A father of two, he was known as a practicing Muslim and a supporter of the opposition Democratic Party.

Open Balkan: Future Belongs To The People

The European Union’s treats Western Balkans states as a wicked stepmother. While this has not significantly changed even after the Russian invasion on Ukraine, it did triggered a fundamental debate on whether the EU wants at all to admit the remaining six Western Balkan countries (Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo) to full-fledged membership. If the EU would have an intent to admit the listed countries to its membership, the question to be asked is how it could do that. Namely, 19 years have passed since the adoption of the Thessaloniki agenda for the Western Balkans, which envisaged membership of the Western Balkan countries in the EU. Other than the promises about European perspective of the respective countries, nothing concrete has happened with respect to their membership in the EU.

Clampdown on African firearms trafficking

An Interpol co-ordinated police operation targeting illicit firearms in Central and West Africa saw 120 arrests and seizure of firearms, gold, drugs, fake medication, wildlife products and cash.

Operation Trigger VIII over six days in June, involved saw 520 law enforcement officials targeting 35 hotspots across Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

Libye : pourquoi la colère de la population monte

C’est le paradoxe libyen, la population s’appauvrit dans le pays le plus riche du continent en réserves de pétrole, avec 48,4 milliards de barils dans ses sols. Depuis le 1er juillet, les manifestations se multiplient.

La révolte gronde dans tout le pays. Le 1er juillet, des manifestants ont attaqué et mis le feu au Parlement de Tobrouk, perçu par la population comme un des principaux responsables de la crise politique et économique du pays. Depuis, plusieurs centres municipaux ont été la cible d’incendies. Des barricades éphémères ont surgit dans les rues de Khoms, Sabha, Zawiyah, al-Bayda, Misrata et Tripoli.