Politics

For decades now, under Israeli pressure Washington has been trying to play a “power game” with Tehran to bleed it dry, and prevent it from gaining the upper hand in its regional competition with Tel Aviv. Moreover, in this patently self-defeating confrontation, the United States is facing a mounting number of political defeats every day...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC estimates that during the 10 years of war in Syria 36% of the country’s 18 million inhabitants have lost their homes, 6.6 million people have become internal refugees, and 13.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. More than 5.6 million people have left Syria since 2011. The ongoing war in Syria...

At the end of June, one of the leading Jordanian news- papers, Assabeel, published an article about how Erdogan "is returning Turkey back to a leading role in the international arena", and listed what the publication considers the most successful steps of the Turkish leader in recent years. In particular, it is noted that he defused a significant part...