Turkey gets its first F-35 jet despite U.S Senate’s move to block the sale
News Analysis | Pentagon has proceeded with the agreement to provide Turkey with state-of-the-art, 5th generation stealth F-35 fighter jets, bypassing Congressional approval. The F-35A...
Huge expat turn out in Turkish Presidential and parliamentary elections
News Analysis | On April 18, The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the country will be heading for snap elections once again. Devlet Bahçeli,...
In Iraq’s Mosul, women desperate for news of ‘disappeared’
AFP | Every Friday since Mosul was prised from the Islamic State group's clutches last July, women gather in the Iraqi city's Al-Minassa Square, desperate...
Erdogan opens new pipeline to pump Azerbaijan gas to Europe
AFP | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday opened a new gas pipeline that will pump Caspian gas from energy-rich Azerbaijan across Anatolia to...
Saudi effort to isolate Iran internationally produces results
James M. Dorsey | Saudi efforts to isolate Iran internationally are producing results in North Africa and Central Asia. Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan...
China’s Xi backs nuclear deal in talks with Iran leader
AFP | Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for the Iran nuclear deal to be "earnestly" implemented as he met the country's president following the US...
Amid U.S. sanctions against Iran, India aims to salvage Chabahar port
News Analysis | India will soon begin talks with Iran on a trade accord just as the US has turned hostile toward the Persian Gulf...
Years after IS, Syrian Kurds rebuild Kobane alone
AFP | After giving up on getting help from Syrian Kurdish authorities, Ahmed Saleh relied on relatives abroad to repair his home in Kobane after...
Iran defiant as it holds day of anti-Israel protests
AFP | Iran held its annual day of protest against Israel on Friday, determined to show defiance at a time of mounting pressure from the...
Trump says walking out of nuclear deal has tamed Iran
News Analysis | Talking to the media in a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Donald Trump asserted that abandoning...
Israel says medic killed in Gaza was ‘human shield’
AFP | Israel on Thursday said that a Palestinian medical volunteer shot dead during violence along the Gaza border had agreed to serve as a...
China hosts summit with Russia and Iran as nuclear deal wobbles
AFP | Iran, China and Russia may seek ways to salvage the nuclear deal ditched by Donald Trump when their leaders meet this weekend at...