As Turkey grows in power, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan would much prefer Iran to be weak and divided. The United States and Israel appear poised to make this dream a reality.

Blasts rang out across a swath of the Middle Eastern republic’s territory, targeting Iran’s nuclear capabilities, military ...

Turkey's rise in Syria. ... Israel should anticipate Iran ... The temptation for the neo-isolationist wing is to remove the 900 US troops in the al-Tanf region in Syria, bordering Jordan and Iraq.

Jordan, Syria and Lebanon reopened their airspace on Saturday, a day after imposing closures as Israel and Iran traded fire. On Friday, Israel launched strikes on Iranian military and nuclear ...

The fear is that this war between Israel and Iran will play out on the ground of all the countries in between, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Damascus ...

Anticipating this, Israel is fortifying those fronts pre-emptively, and its reach could well extend to more distant arenas like Iraq, to prevent their use in future operations targeting Israel. Israel ...

Syria has always been the wing-nut of the region: linking Iraq’s oil to the Mediterranean, the Shia of Iraq and Iran to Lebanon, and NATO’s southern underbelly Turkey to Jordan’s deserts.

Trump’s Syria strategy aims to enable US military withdrawal while weakening Iran’s influence, pressuring Hezbollah, and ...

Turkey is Damascus' closest ally, and Israel sees that alliance as a growing security threat. Safadi, in turn, described the Israeli attacks as among the top issues that threaten Syria’s future.

Turkey, Iran, Russia and the United States have all deployed troops in Syria since 2011, while Israel mounts frequent airstrikes in Syrian territory. Here is some background on the foreign armies ...

But without a clear road map, a Libya or Sudan outcome in Syria is possible. ... group and al-Qaeda on Syria and Iraq from 2011 to ... are significant consequences for Iran and the axis. Turkey ...

Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon share borders with Israel, but only Jordan has formal diplomatic relations with it. Syria was long ruled by Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran, but has since his ouster in ...