A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

The Lebanese government has decided to extradite Egyptian activist Abdel Rahman Al-Qaradawi, son of the late cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following an extradition request from Emirati authorities.

Turkey on Friday accused France of ignoring Ankara's security concerns in Syria by not repatriating French jihadists but leaving them to be guarded by a group Ankara views as a terror threat. "They have a policy: they do not bring ISIS prisoners back to their own countries.

The Foreign Ministry congratulated Lebanon's newly-elected President Joseph Aoun, saying that Türkiye hopes the new government will contribute to

The potential impact of the new Syrian regime on Lebanon would depend on several factors as the history between the two countries has been complicated since the departure of Syrian soldiers from Lebanon in 2005.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday congratulating Joseph Aoun on his election as the President of Lebanon. "We congratulate Mr. Joseph Aoun on his election as President of Lebanon," the ministry stated.

The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, representative, and Islamist it may be. The country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Shara, is a former al Qaeda militant,

A report by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led Israeli government's Nagel Committee has warned that Israel must prepare for a direct confrontation with Turkey

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for now, by Turkey. This should come as no surprise: the history of the Middle East between the 16th and 18th centuries was that of struggle between the Ottoman and Persian empires, and it seems to be reviving in the 21st century.

The destruction of Gaza, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon and, most recently ... networks through military and economic aid. Ankara should be cautious in handling the triumph in Syria.

The kingdom is wasting no time filling the void in the Middle East left by a crippled Iran, which has seen its proxies destroyed, its enemies emboldened and its regional influence decimated.