Salman Rafi Sheikh

Despite possible differences existing between Turkey and Russia over Idlib - differences that result from somewhat diverging ways of handling the last major bastion of jihadi stronghold in Syria - the fact that both countries continue to engage diplomatically and enhance the scope...

While a symbol of ‘western hegemony’, the recent G7 summit was in reality a dismal show of the West caught in and reaping a self-created whirlwind. This whirlwind has been in place since at least the last year summit in Canada when the US president Trump had left for home...

Turkey’s ambitions for Idlib have been put to test not merely due to the situation it is confronting in Syria, but also due to its own strategic choices about its designs regarding the Syrian war's end-game. On the one hand, its particular interests in Idlib are testing its ties with Russia, and on the other hand, it is fast running out of options to secure...