When a newly re-elected Erdoğan landed in Riyadh, two nations and a region stepped up for a bigger role on a world stage that is changing fast, with Ankara eyeing a bigger role in the Gulf

The threat to invade Poland may be a way to divert attention from Putin's mass purge of Russian figures and mask internal divisions with a bit of bravado. 

Americans are more fixated on their own problems and internal divisions, than other global challenges like China and Russia. The Middle East is hardly even a blip on Americans' radar anymore.

Georgia has never been so close to its historic drive to re-integrate into the West. It could gain EU membership, yet a government preoccupied with its own grip on power jeapordises this dream.

One might think that three by-elections were more than enough to give everyone a snapshot of the political situation in the country and a forecast of who would survive the political storm. Sadly, no.

In a wide-ranging interview with Al Majalla, Turkish statesman Ahmet Davutoğlu traces the evolution of his relationship with Erdoğan, when it soured, and his vision for a democratic Turkey

Yet another "insult" to Muslims in Sweden by an Iraqi refugee has proven the tipping point for already tense relations with the Scandinavian nation, complicating diplomacy and politics abroad

That the Biden administration delivered a strategy for countering the Syrian narco-trade is a welcome development. But absent due pressure on Damascus, the strategy will unlikely have any real effect.

Turkey's leader is no stranger to changing tack in the national interest. He has lofty ambitions for his country's global role. Its relationship with the Arab world will be key to his ambitions.

Cooperation between Turkey and Gulf countries will place the region in a much better position to confront challenges and stand up to foreign interference