On 7 January, Turkish and Greek coastguard vessels clashed in the Aegean Sea, escalating the tensions between the two NATO members. On 22 December, Turkey announced it would continue to conduct its seismic research activities in the Eastern (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hosted his counterparts from Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss reopening transport routes in the region that have been paralyzed for nearly three decades amid a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The talks (...)
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said Monday its army units have been attacked by ``an illegal Armenian armed group`` in Nagorno-Karabakh, killing one Azerbaijani serviceman and wounding another.
The ministry said the attack took place in the Khojavend (...)
Egypt's has dropped in rank on the global innovation index (GII) from 92nd place in 2019 to 96th for 2020, while the country has maintained its 14th place among Lower-Middle (LM) income countries.
On the other hand, the GII report showed that Egypt (...)
Donald Trump will leave the White House without achieving his slogan during the 2016 presidential campaign: “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Joe Biden will enter the White House with the slogan: Make America United Again. Biden will likely leave (...)
It is the dawn of 2011, the year of the revolution. And many new songs are coming out of the Tahrir Square demonstrations: Sout Al Horeya and Matloob Zaeem by Cairokee, followed by Aida El Ayouby joining the band for the single Ya Al Midan (“O (...)
Following his election to a third term, Russian President Vladimir Putin readjusted a number of governing norms and principles of his country's foreign policy philosophy to bring it into line with Russian interests in light of sweeping global (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the foreign intelligence service was exceptionally important for protecting the country, in comments made soon after it was accused by some of being behind a major hack on U.S. government departments.
Speaking (...)
In his new book entitled “Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism” published by Oxford University Press in the UK in August, political science professor at the University of Utah in the US M Hakan Yavuz argues that Turkey's ruling (...)
The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defense system, in a striking move against a longtime partner that sets the stage for further confrontation between the two nations as (...)
Armenian officials and Azerbaijan on Saturday accused each other of breaching a peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan's leader threatened to crush Armenian forces with an “iron fist.”
The new (...)
استدعت وزارة الخارجية الإيرانية السفير التركي، الجمعة، للاحتجاج على ما قالت إنها تصريحات تعد «تدخلا» في شؤون البلاد أدلى بها الرئيس التركي رجب طيب أردوغان خلال زيارة لأذربيجان.
وخلال الزيارة تلا أردوغان قصيدة لشاعر إيراني من أصل أذربيجاني تتحدث عن (...)
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned Turkey's ambassador on Friday over what it said was "meddlesome" remarks by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during a visit to Azerbaijan.
Erdogan recited an Azeri-Iranian poem about the division of Azerbaijan's (...)
Dark clouds are billowing over Ankara, the seat of an Islamist ruler set on ending the century long life of the secularist Ataturk republic. They are blowing from the direction of Brussels, seat of NATO and capital of the European Union which is (...)
Qatar will gain more match experience ahead of hosting the World Cup by joining the qualifying group featuring European champion Portugal to play friendlies, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The (...)
The Israeli government on Thursday urged its citizens to avoid travel to the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, citing threats of Iranian attacks.
The travel advisory comes as Iran is threatening to attack Israeli targets following (...)
Facebook Inc's independent Oversight Board announced on Tuesday the first six cases where it could overrule the social media company's decisions to remove certain pieces of content from its platforms.
The board, which Facebook created in response to (...)
“Where you see destruction, death, robbery and violence, you know the Turks passed there,” said great Frenchman, novelist and poet Victor Hugo.
Aware of the Armenian nation's past and present sufferings, French President Emmanuel Macron seems to be (...)
The Azerbaijani army has entered the Kalbajar region, one more territory ceded by Armenian forces in a truce that ended deadly fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The cease-fire, (...)
At last, after six weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan have set aside their arms and begun to implement a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement. Ankara, unable to have a say in that, has been equally frustrated in its (...)
Turkey's parliament on Tuesday approved the deployment of troops to join Russian forces at an observation post in Nagorno-Karabakh after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire deal to end fighting over the enclave.
The mandate (...)
The U.S. administration and Europe need to work jointly on addressing actions led by Turkey in the Middle East over the past few months, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told French daily newspaper Le Figaro.
"France's president Emmanuel Macron and I (...)
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan resigned from his post on Monday, the ministry's spokeswoman wrote on Facebook.
Mnatsakanyan had held the position since May 2018.
The government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has come under pressure (...)
The president of Azerbaijan is promising that Christian churches will be protected when the strongly Muslim country takes possession of areas formerly controlled by Armenians, as residents burned down their homes and fled in cars and trucks ahead of (...)
Corpses of ethnic Armenian soldiers lined stretches of a mountain road in Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday as Russian peacekeepers in trucks and armoured personnel carriers moved in after a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Russia is deploying (...)
