Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran and America's relations have become tense and hostile. The two countries stand against each other and, despite the efforts made to establish a relationship again,...
by Hannes Baumann, University of Liverpool The explosion that tore through Beirut on Tuesday August 4 was so strong that shockwaves were felt on the island of Cyprus, over 200 kilometres away. At...
On the night of Friday, November 15, 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that the price of fuel would triple from the following day. The sudden news caused a great deal of concern among...
Civilians in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region are once again finding themselves in the line of fire after Turkey launched another major operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...
The past few weeks have seen a discouraging standoff ensue between different Kurdish factions over a small patch of land that evokes memories of the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War of the mid-1990s. For the...
Syrian Kurds are angry and feel betrayed by the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. And they have good reason to be, after the WHO was revealed to have...
Iran, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, began to slowly reopen its economy yesterday by easing travel restrictions and reopening businesses. This decision, made against the...
This March, as most of the world grappled with the alarming spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the conflict in Syria entered its tenth year. Although the conflict started almost a decade ago, the...
A United Nations (UN) panel has, for the first time, accused Russia of being responsible for war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas, it was revealed on 2 March. The UN report from...
Two years ago, Turkey launched an unprovoked invasion of the northwestern Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin. Since then, primarily through its Syrian militia proxies, it has instigated a concerted...
