Iran and Turkey’s regional rivalry deepens as Ankara moves to make peace with the Kurds and expands its influence in Syria and Iraq at Tehran’s expense.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Iran on Tuesday to discuss Syrian developments with his Iranian counterpart, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

Tehran’s recent setbacks have paved the way for Ankara’s ascent. The Ankara-backed Azerbaijan’s triumph over Tehran-backed Armenia, Turkish-supported militias outmaneuvering Iran’s influence in Syria,

Iran and Turkey have summoned each other’s diplomats for discussions after Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan criticized Tehran’s policy of supporting militias in Syria and elsewhere in the region.

Three months after Syria’s 14-year-old civil war ended, and as the holy month of Ramadan begins, euphoria is being replaced by anger at the continuing atrophying of the economy and at the apparent inability of the new government to reverse it.

A newly formed armed Syrian group called the Islamic Resistance Front in Syria, pledged to counter efforts by the United States, Israel and Turkey to divide the country following the fall of Assad.

Iran held military drills from late December to late February, seeking to deter US, Israeli attacks after those nations warned of consequences for Iranian progress toward nuclear weapons

Tehran has seen its terror axis in the region devastated by the fall of the regime in Damascus and the war in Lebanon

The Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) published a policy paper last Tuesday proposing establishing an international mechanism

On February 25th, the Israeli airforce bombed military targets in the town of Kisweh, 20 miles south of Damascus

As per the Global Terrorism Index 2025 published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), 1,081 people lost their lives in terrorist-related incidents in Pakistan in 2024, an increase of 45 percent compared to last year.