Reports indicate that Turkish officials have initiated construction plans for the T4 airbase while negotiating a defense pact with the newly established Syrian government, which lacks a robust ...

Khazali claims the goal of the ‘David Corridor’ is to “reach the Kurdish lands in Iraq and Syria, considering the ongoing ...

Thomas Barrack, nominee to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...

Iranian Shabnam Kamoii, who goes by Shab, has become one of the fastest-rising global pop stars in the West. In South Florida ...

Turkish government quota removal opens 100 percent of millers' import wheat requirements via Turkiye's Inward Processing ...

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The military has rules and laws and hierarchy and a chain of command. But undergirding it all is trust—trust that higher-ups ...

Eid al-Fitr, the festival that marks the end of a month of fasting, is typically celebrated over two to three days. It is a ...

Just 48 hours after being named deputy mayor of his town, a veteran councillor found himself in Syria as part of a friendship ...

Turkey banned Newroz gatherings in the 1990s, resulting in Kurds clashing with security forces. Clashes peaked during the ...

By John Lee. Iraq's Minister of Electricity, Eng. Ziyad Ali Fadel, has addressed key energy issues in interviews with Al ...

Leonard Binder was among the first scholars to question the geographical and political scope of the Middle Eastern system in ...