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Has Israel been sidelined as the new regional order is being written? - opinion

Israel fought the wars, paid the price, and transformed the region – only for others to write the new Middle East without it.

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he arrives at the Bestepe Presidential Compound during a formal welcome for the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei speaks during an interview, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 5, 2026.

Iran's Baghaei warns Bulgaria against aiding US during operations, hosting American aircraft

Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) run across a street in Raqqa, Syria, July 3, 2017.

Is a new insurgency brewing? Kurdish rebels clash with IRGC in major border escalation - analysis

Thousands of people demonstrating solidarity with the Palestinian people amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, at the Galata Bridge in Istanbul on January 1, 2026; illustrative.

Hamas operatives are being trained in Turkey to launch attacks against Israel - KAN


Iranian FM heads to Syria, Turkey to discuss regional situation

Assad and Zarif will discuss regional and international developments and avenues for preserving the peace in the region, according to MEHR.

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar Assad meeting with Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in 2015.

Erdogan vows Turkey to continue buying Iranian oil despite U.S. sanctions

Erdogan said Turkey will continue to buy natural gas from Iran in line with its long-term supply contract despite Trump's threats to punish countries doing business with Iran.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 25, 2018

Fallout from the Turkey-Iran-Russia meeting

The problem is that the US has no clear plan now for Syria, while its adversaries appear to have one.

Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey April 4, 2018

France: Turkey and Iran are violating international law in Syria

Iran is a key ally of the Syrian government in the seven-year civil war and it says it has no intention of withdrawing unless Syria requested it do so.

UN chemical weapons experts inspect alleged chemical samples from an attack in Syria, 2013

Caught in the Syrian quagmire

The US and Russia, two world super-powers, and Turkey and Iran, the two regional Islamic powers, are locked into a deadly confrontation with no political issue in sight.

Smoke rises from a target hit by Turkish forces in Afrin, Syria, January 20, 2018

Turkey to complete wall on Iranian border by spring 2019

President Tayyip Erdogan said last year Turkey would build walls along its border with Iraq and part of the border with Iran similar to the nearly completed one on its longest border, with Syria.

'The wall along Mexican border wouldn’t be built and there’d be no chance Mexico would pay a single peso for it.'

Is Turkey turning to Iran and if so, why?

Ankara and Tehran have long sought closer relations, but their new meeting comes as Saudi Arabia's king is visiting Moscow.

SUPPORTERS OF Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wave national flags as they wait for his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.

Iran and Turkey: A new round of an ancient rivalry

Much of the regional international developments in the Middle East will probably be defined by their rivalry.

A MAN wearing an Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniform sports a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Russia, Iran, and Turkey: The New Power Troika

The Jerusalem Post

Iran and Russia discuss increasing military ties; Iran blasts US for 'violation' of nuclear deal

They officials after the International Army Games 2016 began on Saturday.

President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in Ufa, Russia