Tag: Turkey

Foreign ministry in Tehran critisises Obama for enacting law aimed at countering its alleged influence in Latin America. Iran has blasted US President Barack Obama for enacting a law aimed ...

  It was August 2012 and we were sitting in front of the TV. The Syrian state-run channel was reporting that the country's army was fighting bravely in the streets ...

Power struggles and nuclear ambitions mean that Iran and the Middle East will remain volatile and any peace will be precarious. The spectre of military confrontation with Iran, igniting a wider ...

Turkey has begun discussing disarmament with Kurdish militants after concluding that it is unlikely to defeat them militarily, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's chief adviser said on Monday. The government has been ...

An Iraqi political movement says it is planning to sue Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over what it calls Ankara’s interference in the Iraq's internal affairs. According to the ...

Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, has stated that the Arab Spring developed against Israel. Salah assessed the latest developments on Syria and ...

Syrian soldiers including a general crossed into Turkey together with their families. Fleeing the violence in their country, 3,800 more Syrians entered to Turkey in the past three days, seeking shelter from the ...

US President Barack Obama has cut short his holiday in Hawaii and returned to Washington to try to persuade Congress to reach an agreement avoiding the “fiscal cliff.”   The ...

In what appears to be a significant softening of tone, a hard-line Iranian cleric, Mashhad Friday Prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, has said that it is wrong to consider opposition ...

This is a guest post by Katy Pearce, an assistant professor in the University of Washington's Department of Communication.  Governments and policy pundits frequently cite technology-penetration rates -- Internet, mobile ...