Tag: Middle East

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 ...

Ban urged for a political settlement in Syria avoiding further militarization of the conflict to put an end to the atrocities of the Syrian people. United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban ...

Davutoglu said the recent events in the region were part of a change that also affects Turkey. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Arab nations in the Middle East were striving to reclaim their dignity. "They may ...