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Turkey and Iran have been regional rivals for decades, with Syria as a key battleground. The ousting of Syrian President ...

A Dangerous Shift in Middle Eastern Dynamics. In the ever-shifting landscape of the Middle East, one thing remains constan ...

Talks to speed a resumption in oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have been delayed until Thursday ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

The PKK’s disarmament will help Erdoğan on the foreign policy front as well. He wants to bolster trade, expand energy and ...

In the case of the Kurds, despite the division, sentiments of solidarity and expressed desire for self-determination in the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to position Turkey as an energy hub, connecting gas producers to its east and south ...

The meeting was called after repeated statements by Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani and his government said that the ...

The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Oil companies operating in the Kurdistan Region emphasized on Tuesday that the absence of a formal ...

Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday condemned recent remarks by Turkey’s top diplomat on the country’s militia influence in the ...