Israeli President Herzog in Ankara with Turkish President Erdogan (Image: Haim Zach / IGPO)
Behind the News – April 2022
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT No rockets were fired...
A US soldier patrols with Afghan soldiers in the village of Yawez in Wardak province, Afghanistan, 17 February 2010 (credit: U.S. Army, Flickr).
The Afghanistan retreat: We may soon be recalling why we went there in the first place.
Fathom Journal – December 2021    Tzvi Fleischer...
Numerous countries helped the Taliban achieve their victory, including Pakistan, Qatar and, to some extent, Iran (Source: Twitter)
Afghanistan’s Winners
The victors in Kabul will be those who...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his intelligence chief Hakan Fidan meet with Hamas leadership, including US Specially Designated Global Terrorist Saleh al-Arouri, in Turkey, August 2020 (credit: Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)
Turkish conference underlines growing role of Ankara as key driver of global Islamist extremism
The Turkish government’s decision to co-sponsor an “academic conference” in...
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Greek-Israel defence deal is latest evidence of the blossoming Eastmed alliance
In the latest evolution of the ever-deepening eastern...
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Israel’s Powerful Connections: The strategic logic behind plans for the world’s longest undersea cable
On March 8, the energy ministers of Israel,...
US-Turkey
The Biden Administration’s Turkish Dilemma
It is always perilous to try to predict...
Turkey Greece
Beware Turkey’s normalisation noise
Originally published in The Blogs (Times of Israel) –...
Turkish President Erdogan with Pakistani PM Imran Khan at a meeting in early February
Turkey and Pakistan are fanning the Islamist flames
  French President Emmanuel Macron’s expressions of condemnation...
Image: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images.
War between Armenia and Azerbaijan highlights Turkey–Israel tensions
The Strategist (ASPI) – 26 November 2020  ...
Left to right: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Was Iran a winner or a loser in the Armenia-Azerbaijan war?
The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the latter...
6th Israel-Cyprus-Greece trilateral in Jerusalem, March 2019 (Right to Left: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades; Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu; former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras)
Turkey’s provocative actions in the Mediterranean spark a reaction
An overlapping series of alliances and partnerships in...