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In January 2020, a military strike by the United States assassinated Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, then deputy head of an Iraqi paramilitary organization known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU). To read the article please click...
On May 9, protesters in Karbala city set ablaze portions of the fencing around the Iranian Consulate. It is response for the assassination of Ehab al-Wazni, a vocal opponent of corruption and Iran's influence in Iraq and a coordinator of protests in Karbala, pro-Tehran armed groups are legion. Al-Wazni's assassination was not a sole incident in Iraq. From the beginning of the...
Saying that Turkish-Egyptian relations have had a turbulent period since the ousting of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi would be an understatement. Since the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, Turkish-Egyptian relations have been demoted to the charges d'affaires level, primarily acting on economic and cultural communication. Furthermore, since then the attitude of both countries...
"Turkish procurement of S-400 tactical missile defense system and Iran's pursuit of nuclear power is presented as problematic because these states are well-known for their avoidance in band-wagoning strategies," Furkan Halit Yolcu tells the Tehran Times. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on March 24, urged Ankara...
"The U.S. has never been a shining example of a country that internalized democratic or humanitarian values," Caner, the research assistant in the Middle East Institute at Sakarya University, tells the Tehran Times. "The U.S. media is controlled by various powerful actors and they use their newspapers, TVs, and journalists to achieve their political goals," according to Caner. You...
Mustafa al-Kadhimi's government was established six months after Adel Abdul-Mahdi resigned due to the anti-government protests, which started in Iraq in September 2019. Can Mustafa al-Kadhimi's government be successful? The ethno-sectarian distribution system -- the distribution of government resources among the political parties -- has become the main backbone of politics in the...

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