Middle Orient

Erdoğan said that Turkey would freeze Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership bids if the Nordic countries do not come into line with Turkey’s “fight against terrorist organizations.” That might be a tough task for Finland and Sweden. In 2019, Erdoğan notoriously called half of Turks (those who do not vote …

The foreign ministers of Iran and Russia weighed plans to strengthen coordination between the two countries on regional and international issues. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov talked about the “pressing issues of bilateral cooperation in follow-up to the agreements of the talks between the …

A US military official rejected Iran’s claims that the unmanned sea drones pose a hazard to commercial shipping in the region. An Iranian warship picked up two US naval drones in the Red Sea on Thursday before releasing them Friday morning as American destroyers followed in pursuit. The Iranian Navy …

Tension has been mounting between the political leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad over the Palestinian deaths caused by the latter’s rockets during the recent round of fighting with Israel. Tension has been mounting between Hamas’ political leaders and Palestinian Islamic Jihad over the deaths caused by the latter’s …

Turkey hosted two rival Libyan premiers in Istanbul in bid to strike a conciliation between the clashing parties. A fresh round of deadly clashes has forced Turkey to step into fray and host high-level meetings with two rival Libyan leaders in a bid to de-escalate the tensions, Al-Monitor has learned. …

The Syrian army air defences confronted an Israeli missile aggression on some points in Damascus countryside and shot down a number of the missiles. “about 9.18 p.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an air missile aggression from the direction of Lake Tiberias in northern occupied Palestine, targeting some points southeast …

These direct and indirect losses are estimated at 107.1 billion dollars, according to SANA. Syria stressed that the practices of the United States, whose forces are illegally present on Syrian territory, along with the theft and illegitimate trafficking carried out by terrorist groups and the separatist QSD (Syrian Democratic Forces, …

The system was brought back to Russia to strengthen its defence, according to al-Souria Net. An Israeli space intelligence firm said Russia had reshipped the advanced S-300 air defence system from Syria to Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine continued. On Saturday, ImageSat International published photos showing that the S-300 …

Nikolas Granger also met the Department of Foreign Relations of the AANES, according to North Press. US Senior Representative to Northeast Syria Nikolas Granger met on Wednesday with a delegation of the Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS). This came during his first visit to the region, where he met …

Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart affirmed the necessity to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, according to SANA.