Mosul: War and Peace
BY: Hasan Öztürk* Whatever we do would be useless… They have ‘sworn’ to keep us away from the table. As we have all heard about the recent news. An arrest warrant has been issued for [ More … ]
BY: Hasan Öztürk* Whatever we do would be useless… They have ‘sworn’ to keep us away from the table. As we have all heard about the recent news. An arrest warrant has been issued for [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* They set Daesh against Turkey. They set the Baghdad government against Turkey. They set the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD) against Turkey. They are continuing [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Someone fell captive to the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq war. When he was sent to the prison camp, he realized that the first thing he was asked was his sect. [ More … ]
By: Mohamed Abu Saada* Introduction: The operation to retake the city of Mosul began with massive bombardment of Daesh targets inside the city by the Iraqi forces and the international coalition, while military sources indicated [ More … ]
Iran announced it is ready for war by reportedly launching a series of drills showing off its air power as it accused the US of breaking its nuclear deal. It launched the three-day war drills, [ More … ]
An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison and fined $4.8 million, on charges of cooperating with the US, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. Iran Iran’s [ More … ]
Two Taliban officials said on Tuesday that the militant movement held informal, secret peace talks with the Afghan government earlier this month in Qatar, reported Reuters. According to media reports, the Taliban and senior Afghan [ More … ]
The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire that will take effect shortly before midnight Wednesday, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen told The Associated Press. Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed [ More … ]
Once again, Egypt and Iran appear to be heading toward rapprochement, with increasingly converging views on Syria bringing the two regional powers closer together. Tehran and Cairo have long followed a pattern of enthusiasm about [ More … ]
– US demands immediate release of father, son – Iran has sentenced two Americans each to 10 years in prison, the U.S. said Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency. Expressing “deep concerns,” State Department spokesman Mark [ More … ]
An Iranian official said the United States is the most important reason behind all the current “problems” in the Middle East, stressing that Washington must accept its strategic mistakes and leave the region. “The root cause [ More … ]
BY: KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT* The election in the U.S. is usually on domestic politics but the world is also watching and the foreign policy debates in the U.S. continue to grow increasingly shocking to the [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* The key subject of the Mosul operation is who will be joining. I am in Irbil and here a covert to open competition is observed in this regard. The Iraqi army [ More … ]
Ashura, a religious occasion in which Shiites commemorate the murder of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was for many Syrians totally different this year. The streets of Damascus, known to be [ More … ]
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called for an “immediate and lasting humanitarian ceasefire” in Syria in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart. What seems odd. is that both Russia and Iran are making [ More … ]
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