Tag: Middle East

Following the military coup in 2013, the new regime in Egypt has taken serious steps to limit the activities of civil society. The regime led by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took the initial ...

On Monday, the US will ratchet up its brutal and merciless economic war against Iran, raising sanctions to a new level. The Trump administration has said its goal is to ...

Two prominent regional powers in the Middle East made headlines this week for entirely different reasons. Iran, Washington's most obvious enemy in this part of the world, faces a second ...

Today in Istanbul, four governments — Turkey, Russia, Germany, and France — are meeting for a summit over Syria, attempting to consolidate the Sochi Agreement signed by Russia and Turkey over Idlib, ...

Syria is one of Israel’s principal immediate military threats. The situation today with respect to Syria's threat to Israel is complicated as a result of the on-going outrageous civil war ...

Nobody knows what will happen next in Syria. Syria’s war is unique among its conflicting military strategies, but it is not unique among civil wars generally. Threatening enemy, inflammable religious ...

Part of The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)'s rise in Syria and Iraq can be attributed to sectarian politics. However, another major factor driving ISIS militants who have, ...

Weapons will be transported to Syrian port of Latakia, from where they will be shipped on commercial vessels and loaded onto a US ship, and finaly destroyed at sea using ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul urges regional leaders to find solution to regional problems. Democratic process in the Middle East and the North Africa should go on uninterrupted, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Wednesday. Gul made the ...

The collapse of Turkey’s "zero problems with neighbors" policy could be traced back to Ankara’s efforts to bring the Sunnis to power following the Iraqi elections of 2010. The Baghdad-Ankara link was severed by Turkey's ...