Salman Rafi Sheikh

While last two weeks have seen the erstwhile—and current—NATO allies, the US and Turkey, exchanging serious words of warning over Turkey’s ground and air operations against the US-backed Kurdish militias, Turkey doesn’t seem to...

Despite the violent split between Yemen’s former—and now dead--leader Saleh and the Houthi rebels-- two major groups involved in the Saudi imposed Yemen war who jointly fought Saudi coalition as allies for some time--the Saudi coalition has failed to take advantage of...

While Turkey’s ‘Oliver Branch’ operation did invite an initial expression of “concern” from the Iranian officials, this expression has ever since then turned into a silent consent, followed by continued Turkish-Iranian co-operation in Syria, evident from their participation in...