By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department The recent trip of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the President of Syria, to the United States and his meetings with officials of that country have placed a serious question before Syria’s foreign policy: should Damascus enter a new path of engagement with Washington, or should it ...

By Mohamed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt Sometimes crises intertwine and interests intersect, providing the Middle East with a “window of opportunity” to move forward. This was achieved during the unique partnership between King Faisal and President Sadat. The Cairo-Riyadh understanding contributed to the unification of the Arab states, which led to the great October War of 1973. At the ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Author The second Trump term will mark its first anniversary in just two months, and this past year has been sufficient to cause major upheavals on the global stage. Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has taken America’s customary aggressive power projection even further, pushing it beyond the bounds of imperial behavior and transforming it into a mindset ...

The visit of Syrian transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa to Washington and his meeting with US President Donald Trump caused great interest globally. It was the first visit of a Syrian Head of State to Washington since decades, brought about some agreements and indications of a major turning point in Middle Eastern politics. We spoke about this visit and its repercussions ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his first visit to Türkiye at the end of October. Türkiye and Britain signed an on cooperation regarding Eurofighter jets.Türkiye purchased 20 Eurofighter jets for $10.7 billion. UK Defense Secretary John Healey stated that the first delivery of the 20 jets to be supplied from Britain is expected in 2030. Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar ...

I don’t know about you, dear readers, but personally, every week I’m amazed by new advances in science and technology that astound my limited understanding of the subject. But beyond that, they allow me to appreciate that this other war—the one that truly matters, the search for new inventions and discoveries to improve humanity’s living conditions and for military development ...

By Beto Cremonte* – Amid sustained economic growth and a discourse of modernization, Tanzania faces its darkest hour since independence. Youth protests, state repression, and external interests raise a larger question: are we witnessing a popular uprising or the beginning of a new color revolution? In Africa, we are witnessing a wave of sovereignist uprisings, color revolutions, and mobilizations resisting ...

By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan The suicide blast that ripped through Islamabad’s district courts on a November morning, killing ordinary citizens on their way to routine hearings, was a brutal reminder that Pakistan’s long war with militancy is again bleeding into its major cities. Only hours earlier, a far deadlier plot in Wana, where militants linked to the ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Writer To assess the civil war in Sudan and see that the ongoing process is not merely a power struggle between two generals, one must understand the details of the fault lines that have been triggered in the country for decades and the power struggle that has taken shape. And to understand what is happening in ...

Bolivia chose its president, ending a long phase of leftwing governments. What is the reason for this result, and what is to be expected in the country’s future? We asked these questions to Adolfo Leigue Mendoza, a Bolivian politician, intellectual and a long-term member of the South American supranational PARLASUR parliament. How do you evaluate the elections? Did the right-wing ...

On October 15, European Union energy ministers reached a draft agreement to ban Russian energy imports as of January 1, 2028. For the draft to take effect, it still needs approval from the European Parliament, with the process expected to be completed by the end of the year. Under the proposal, gas imports will only be permitted if companies can ...

By Ali Rıza Taşdelen The month of September was marked by protests led by young people the system labels as the “Generation Z.” Born in the 2000s, this generation had long been described as indifferent to the country’s problems, apolitical, captive to the digital world, and “socialized” only through social media. Yet their movement, began in Nepal, soon spread its ...