The word for 2025 is “sovereignty.” Despite many challenges like reducing oil dependency, ensuring political stability amid sectarian divides and managing environmental crises, the Sudani government must focus on protecting the state.

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for now, by Turkey. This should come as no surprise: the history of the Middle East between the 16th and 18th centuries was that of struggle between the Ottoman and Persian empires, and it seems to be reviving in the 21st century.

Turkey is working to ensure that Syria's transformation over the last month will not bring new instabilities to the region, President Tayyip Erdogan told the Iraqi Kurdish prime minister, Erdogan's office said on Tuesday.

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani arrived in Ankara to meet top officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to provide support to the new Syrian administration for the management of Islamic State camps in the country, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.

Turkey has offered military assistance and capacity-building support to the new Syrian military to combat “terrorist groups”, during an unprecedented visit by a high-level Syrian delegation led by the new Syrian foreign minister to Ankara on Wednesday.

Iraq is recalibrating its Syria policy following Assad's collapse, balancing security concerns with economic interests and sectarian divides. Shia leaders emphasize defending holy sites and countering extremism,

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President Tayyip Erdogan warned on Wednesday that Turkey had the power and ability to "crush" all terrorists in Syria, including Islamic State and Kurdish militants, while urging all countries to "take their hands off" Syria.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who turns 71 next month and is in his third decade as the nation’s leader, has an appetite for power that appears as healthy as ever. On Monday, he declared 2025 to be “the year of the family” and unveiled measures aimed at raising the national birth rate.