Iran rejected accusations of culpability for the violent attack on author Salman Rushdie last week, denying direct involvement even as it blamed the 75-year-old and his supporters for the bloody incident. For reading the full text, please click...

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...

Israel might have the power now to suppress the Palestinians, shoot them in the eye, fabricate false claims about Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood but its intellectuals, unlike its politicians, know well that Israel can't sustain the system of apartheid for long. To reach the full text, please click...

"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...

Middle Eastern politics experienced the peak of Turkish-Saudi partnership during the 2015-2016 period as ASELSAN, one of the top Turkish defense companies, signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with promising Saudi defense companies TAQNIA and KACST. You can reach the full text from...

Losing Turkey and Iran will not help Joe Biden to contain China, says Mustafa Caner, Turkish academic. Please click here to reach the...

"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...