Earlier this month, Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford got a notice from X: her account was being blocked in Turkey. She asked the Turkish presidency why and has yet to get an answer. She isn’t the...
The Mecca Pact gained a cousin on Wednesday when two of its signatories — Turkey and Pakistan — announced a new defense agreement with Qatar and Indonesia. The Badr Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),...
Protests took place in Syria on October 23 as Syrians condemned “Israeli incursions and attacks,” according to Syrian state media. The protests came a day after Syrians claimed an unarmed civilian...
Late this past September, Turkey’s Education Ministry entered into an agreement with the Ensar Foundation, an organization that claims to advance educational objectives in keeping with what it calls...
The proliferation of air defense threats is prompting a rethink of conventional, expensive, and hard-to-restock air defense systems.
At the beginning of this year, the speaker of eastern Libya’s parliament described a proposed maritime border deal with Turkey as “built on illegality.” However, on October 20, the same parliament...
After nearly three years of staying out of the wars in the Middle East, Egypt may finally be ready to engage. On October 18, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to provide Saudi Arabia with...
“We are maintaining our military presence in Iraq and Syria,” Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler declared on October 20. Reprising comments he made in February, when he asserted that Turkey “doesn’t...
On October 20, Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Mohammad Kazem Al Sadegh said that Iraq has agreed to “expel the elements of the Iranian separatist terrorist groups from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq or to...
Russian strikes on Black Sea shipping are probing NATO’s tolerance for attacks on allies. The US and Europe must reinforce the region.
Riyadh has lived with the Houthi danger lurking at its southern border without good options to remove it.
Iraq is at a new crossroads. On October 8 and 12, Iranian drones targeted Kurdish Iranian opposition groups based in northern Iraq. These are just several of more than 1,000 attacks by Iran on Iraq over...
Hezbollah announced a yearlong housing-assistance program on October 13, offering eligible families displaced by the 2024 and 2026 wars with Israel up to $14,000 for rent and furniture. Lebanese Prime...
If Lebanon wants to reclaim control of its borders, it must recognize that while the EU can grade its homework, only the Lebanese army can hold the line.
This year’s winner has a long history of blaming Israel for the world’s problems.
Another key Shabaab leader is dead, according to Somali authorities. Earlier this week, Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said that senior Shabaab official Bashir Ahmed Haji...
U.S. sanctions have strained Iran’s finances and disrupted some funding channels to its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. Yet sanctions have not eliminated the group’s access to outside funding, including...
The US and its allies have no alternative but to prove to Iran-backed terror groups that closing straits to influence the global economy and political and operational decisions will not succeed.