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Various aspects of global and regional security discussed in Moscow
Moscow hosts quadrilateral talks gathering defence ministers of the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the Republic of...
Syrian President’s Visit to Russia Amid the Changing Regional Environment
Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Moscow on March 14, 2023, for talks with his Russian counterpart—bringing along a representative delegation (almost all the...
The Fragile Future of the Kurdish Regions in Iraq and Syria
For decades in northern Iraq, the two Kurdish parties of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of the Talabani family and the Kurdistan Democratic...
Jeddah summit: A Saudi role and Syrian approval
If Syria fell as was intended for it in 2011, the official Arab system would have fallen, and we would have experienced a system...
Peace in the Middle East and Tension in Europe
The new doctrine of Russian foreign policy, which was recently signed by Putin, is actually a reaction against the new national security strategy of...
As the weight of the US in the Middle East decreases, problems in the Middle East are being solved
2023 is likely to be the year of normalization in the history of the Middle East (West Asia), Turkish ‘Cumhuriyet’ writes.
The effect of the...
Free will trumps determinism in Gulf politics
China’s mediation to normalise Saudi-Iranian diplomatic ties has been widely welcomed internationally, especially in the West Asian region. A clutch of unhappy states that...
There is optimism that Syria stands to gain out of Saudi-Iranian rapprochement
The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the US occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the US...
This Distant Damascus
For the last 12 years, the war in Syria has been raging on. March 15, 2011 is considered to be the starting date of...
Arab plan for Syria puts US and Europe in a bind
A push by Arab allies of the United States to bring Syria in from the cold highlights the limits of a Chinese-mediated rapprochement between...