Category: Middle East

Turkey tightens its grip over region, extends troop deployment in Libya and oil exploration in Mediterranean
- By Alaina
- . December 25, 2020
With an aim to tighten its grip over the region, Turkey launched two major aggressive moves within a week. On Thursday morning, Turkey’s Official Gazette

Rawest poll shows Kurdish feel discriminated in Turkey
- By Alaina
- . December 22, 2020
As per a recent finding by YADA Foundation, Kurdish Studies Center and Rawest Research Company, Turkey has been deliberately alienating Kurdish youth. The survey funded

Turkey says will not revert from the purchase of the Russian S-400s missile despite US sanctions
- By Alaina
- . December 19, 2020
On Thursday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated Turkey won’t revert from its purchase of the Russian S-400s missile defense system and will take reciprocal measures

UN official urges Security Council to focus on South Sudan
- By Alaina
- . December 19, 2020
A series of intercommunal fighting and flooding has severely impacted various areas of South Sudan since 2019. It has resulted in massive destruction of livelihoods

UK lawmakers question Saudi regime over mysterious case of missing princes and dissenters
- By Alaina
- . December 18, 2020
UK and European lawmakers questioned Saudi Arabia over unlawful detention of many Saudi princes, especially Mohammed bin Nayef was taken into custody in 2017 on

UK MPs call for proscribing Iran’s IRGC as terrorist group
- By Alaina
- . December 16, 2020
A report by the UK’s all-party foreign affairs select committee has recommended the British government to take steps to officially designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps

Iran’s Javad Zarif: ‘U.S. sanctions on Turkey are contempt of International Law’
- By Alaina
- . December 16, 2020
On Tuesday, Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif denounced the forced sanctions on neighboring Turkey by the United States government over its purchase of Russia’s S-400

Turkey confirms Kidnapping of former ASMLA leader Habib Chaab
- By Alaina
- . December 15, 2020
Former ASMLA leader Habib Chaab has been abducted by Turkish intelligence in Istanbul, where he was illegally smuggled to Iran. Habib was captured by Iranian

UN court orders life sentence to Hezbollah militant for the assassination of Lebanese premier Hariri
- By Alaina
- . December 12, 2020
On Friday, an UN-backed court gave a life sentence to a Hezbollah member, who was convicted for the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri.

Lebanese PM-designate Hariri unveils his cabinet line-up, weeks before Macron’s visit
- By Alaina
- . December 10, 2020
On Wednesday, Lebanon Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri presented his cabinet line-up to President Michel Aoun, with an attempt to break the deadlock. Hariri’s cabinet included