Al Sharq Strategic Research | 02 November 2026
Speakers: Wadah Khanfar, President, Al Sharq Forum Robert Malley, President Emeritus and Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group Galip Dalay, Co-Director, Global Orders Programme, University of Oxford Ali Vaez, Deputy [...]
Javad Heiran-Nia | 10 April 2026
With the outbreak of the 2026 February war and the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian territory—which resulted in the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, several senior military commanders, and the [...]
Anton Mardasov | 08 April 2026 | AR
The US-Israeli military operation against Iran did not catch Russia off guard. According to media sources, Russian intelligence learned in advance of the exact date the military campaign would begin and warned Russian diplomats [...]
Omair Anas | 08 April 2026
The joint US-Israel war on Iran predictably initiated without regional consultation or support from the NATO allies in Europe. The war might have started with the assumption that knocking out the top Iranian leaders [...]
Mehmet Alaca 
Bekir Aydogan | 01 April 2026 | AR | TR
The war initiated by the US and Israel on February 28 has not only engulfed Iran and the immediate theaters of conflict; it has also begun to draw in Iraq, one of the region’s [...]
Nourelhouda Mouhoub | 01 April 2026
IntroductionThe conflict in Western Sahara has entered a decisive phase following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2797 (2025), which renewed the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara [...]
Kadir Temiz | 10 March 2026 | AR | TR
Introduction The ongoing U.S.–Israel war on Iran has quickly become one of the most consequential geopolitical crises of the decade. Though the immediate battlefield is located in the Middle East, the strategic implications of [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 22 January 2026 | AR | TR
The intermittent cycle of conflict between the Syrian forces and the SDF, which began in the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Aleppo on January 6 and subsequently spread east of the Euphrates, reminiscent of the momentum [...]
Javad Heiran-Nia | 05 August 2025
The 12-day war between Iran and Israel served as a geopolitical turning point that transformed the balance of power in the Middle East and signaled the emergence of a new regional order. This war [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 01 August 2025 | AR
The fate of the renewed peace process that Türkiye launched with the PKK after a decade is taking a dangerous turn in the wake of the dramatic events in Southern Syria. Following recent developments [...]
