Orientul Mijlociu

Executive Summary

The Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) launched a multilateral defence industry cooperation platform that represents Ankara’s strategic initiative to expand its economic and geopolitical influence in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Coinciding with the 17th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) in Istanbul, this development supports Turkey’s ambitions to merge a defence-industrial bloc rooted in Turkic cultural ties.

Over a week between November and December 2024, Syria’s Assad regime disintegrated under pressure from a rebel offensive after 14 years of war. This offensive was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Salafi extremist group. Its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, took the reins of the country and became Syria’s president on January 29, 2025.

Civilizational Decay, Entropy, and the Failure of Moral Evolution

ranThis paper examines the Islamic Republic of Iran not merely as a political system, but as a metaphysical and civilizational rupture. Contrary to narratives that view the regime as reformable, this paper argues that the Islamic Republic is rooted in an anti-anthropic paradigm — one that lacks a moral anthropology and operates outside the ethical architecture of civilization. Drawing from political philosophy, Islamic ethics, Iranian history, and entropy theory, the paper contends that the regime is a parasitic formation sustained by the historical disintegration of Iranian society and incapable of ethical evolution or civilizational integration.

Recently, Jordan joined the list of countries that have banned the Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Austria. The move came after Jordanian authorities announced that they had arrested 16 people suspected of planning attacks aimed at “targeting national security, sowing chaos and sabotage.”

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children, according to health officials.

Why Have Israel’s Recent Wars Led to Little Terrorism and No Mass Uprising?

The Middle East is in crisis, and Israel is at the center of the storm. Since Hamas’s surprise attack on October 7, 2023, that killed around 1,200 Israelis, the Israeli military has assailed and occupied much of the Gaza Strip, ramped up operations in the West Bank, struck Houthi targets in Yemen, devastated Hezbollah in Lebanon, hit nuclear and military sites in Iran, and bombed parts of Syria. All these adversaries have links to terrorism: in the decades before October 7, Hamas and Hezbollah used terrorism against Israel, killing over 1,000 civilians as well as many soldiers. Through its proxies and on its own, Iran has attacked Israeli and Jewish targets around the world. The Trump administration recently redesignated the Houthis as a terrorist group, while the new ruler of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, led a group once affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Many Palestinians, as well as many people within the solidarity movement for Palestine, have little faith in the current state of Palestine, as it is defined by Palestinian Authority (PA).

The geographical space of this state of Palestine is not entirely clear, given the fact it is bisected by the partition offered by the Oslo Accord: to area A (which allegedly it controls), area B, (which it co-rules with Israel) and area C (ruled directly by Israel and constitutes 60% of the West Bank).

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for full support of the disarmament of Kurdish militants that began with a handover of the first batch of weapons by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces, a step he said opened a new page for the country.

Thirty PKK militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.

In a short war with Israel and the United States, none of the many proxies could help Iran: the “axis of resistance” for years built by the Islamic Republic, formed from groups that oppose Israel and the United States, was practically broken. However, according to the orientalist Marianne Belenka, the resilient regime of Khamenei, licking the wounds, will continue to support the Yemeni Houthis, Hamas and other anti-Israel groups. In addition, in addition to Iran, they may have other sponsors.

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu is still in US. His tour is getting prolonged. He has met US President Donald Trump twice, and it is deliberated that US/Israel are set to apply Lebanon and Libya model in Iran, which means killing Iran’s top political leadership, army leadership on the lines of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrullah (Lebanon) and killing Iran’s supreme leader Ayatullah Khamenie, the way Libya’s President Colonel Ghaddafi was killed, kick a civil-war in Iran, bring Iran’s whole nuclear enrichment plan to zero, destroy Iran’s missile and drone factories, and later put Reza Shah Pahalvi son, by stamping a regime change. Before Netanyahu is slated to return, Mossad, Israeli intelligence agency, has launched certain numbers on its official X account: Mossad Farsi, and the whole world is trying to decipher through the codes!