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Turkey eyes post-Iran Middle East as regional order shifts - analysis

It’s not clear whether Ankara is posing as a neutral power or seeking to portray itself as similar to most European and NATO powers that also remained outside the war.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Ankara, last April. Ankara is quietly assembling the architecture of permanent regional power, the writer says.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Ankara, last April. Ankara is quietly assembling the architecture of permanent regional power, the writer says.

Turkey’s strategy for long-term dominance in the Middle East - opinion

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan speaks during an interview with Reuters at the 23rd edition of the annual Doha Forum, in Doha, Qatar, December 6, 2025.

'Israel cannot live without hostility': Turkey warns Israel may target it next

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025.

'Turkey is the new Iran': The growing threat Erdogan poses to Israel - analysis


Lebanese president says ties with Saudi Arabia on the mend after visit

Saudi Arabia cancelled military aid last February when Beirut failed to join other Arab states in condemning attacks by Iranian demonstrators on Saudi missions in Iran.

Saudi King Salman bin Abulaziz Al-Saud welcomes Lebanon's President Michel Aoun (R) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 10, 2017

Can Lebanon ever rid itself of Hezbollah?

The Jerusalem Post

Dore Gold: Ties with Sunni world growing quietly

But building these relationships needs to be done cautiously, he said, without necessarily making them public.

Dore Gold

Gulf Shi'ites paying religious tax to Iran are funding terror, Sunni campaign says

The Khums (meaning fifth in Arabic), is a tax mentioned in the Koran and consisting of 20% of a person's excess earning. The money is donated to poor and orphans, as well as to Islamic institutions.

Iran displays parts of S-300 air defense missile system imported from Russia in parade on "National Army Day."

Hezbollah deputy leader: 'Israel is training Saudi army officers'

Senior official of Shi'ite Lebanese group tells local media that secret relations between Riyadh and Jerusalem led to the Saudi decision to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Saudi troops

The Iran-backed Sunni group that aids Hezbollah in the Syrian battlefield

The Lebanese media claims that the main stronghold of the Resistance Brigades is the southern region connecting Sidon and Beirut, which is home to many poor and unemployed people.

Hezbollah supporters during a televized speech by the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut

Netanyahu: Sunni Arab states more realistic about Israeli-Palestinian conflict than EU

"Obviously Israel and the Sunni Arab states are not on opposite sides," PM says at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

PM Netanyahu sits down with Fareed Zakaria at the Davos Economic Forum- Jan. 2016