Tag: Turkey

03/02/2026 - 10:55Regional powers invited to US-Iran Istanbul talks, official says The priority ​of talks between Iran and ⁠the United States this week in Istanbul is to avoid ​any conflict and de-escalate ‍tensions between the two sides, ​a regional official told Reuters, adding a group of regional powers were ...

The Trump administration's policies on Israel show an emerging paradigm shift. If in the past, the United States sought to build a regional alliance with Israel at its center, it is now backing a Turkish-Saudi-Pakistani axis that will expand its influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and push Israel ...

India’s trade deal with the European Union has caused ripples from across the border to the United States as well. Not only Bangladesh, Pakistan but even the United States and Turkey will feel the heat of the historic trade agreement between India and the EU. Under the agreement, tariffs ...

The arrival of 2026 has brought anything but peace to the Middle East, caught in the gravitational pull of rival ambitions and with the uneasy sense that the next war may already be under way.From Gaza to Syria, conflict hotspots are flaring as the region finds itself at the ...

Three years after he fled Iran, Diako Alavi is getting by with little scraps of information about his large family living in cities and towns in the country’s northwestern Kurdish-majority areas. The internet and communication blackouts that accompanied the regime’s recent crackdown on protests have left him reliant on ...

Eight nations — UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar — have accepted invitations to join US President Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza, their foreign ministers said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The ministers announced that each state will sign the joining documents in ...

A breaking news story on the morning of December 29 last year caused nationwide horror in Turkey: An eight-hour gunfight ensued in the city of Yalova during a raid on a house where operatives from "Islamic State's" Khorasan Province, or ISKP, group were hiding. ISKP is an offshoot of the ...

As tensions between the United States and Iran threaten to plunge the Middle East into chaos again, regional military powers Turkey and Pakistan have revealed they are planning a tripartite defence partnership with Saudi Arabia.Thursday’s disclosure comes as Iran’s neighbours await clarity on US President Donald Trump’s announcement of ...

Pakistan is increasingly confident of making billion-dollar arms sales, headlined by JF-17 fighters co-produced with China, as up to six Muslim-majority countries look to upgrade their air forces amid growing geopolitical turbulence and civil wars.A preliminary deal worth US$4 billion for an unspecified number of JF-17s and other training ...

United States President Donald Trump says he will slap a 25 percent tariff on any country doing business with Iran, ratcheting up pressure on its government, which is facing its biggest protests in decades.Years of Western sanctions have battered the OPEC member nation’s economy, causing high inflation, unemployment and ...