Great East

Israel has struck a second Iranian military facility near Azerbaijan’s borders within days, while a separate missile incident involving Turkey underscored the widening regional risks linked to the Ira...

The probability of a ground operation against Iran is increasing as Tehran continues missile and drone strikes on Israel despite sustained aerial bombardment by the United States and Israeli forces, r...

Why was such a powerful strike against Iran launched именно now, accompanied by demands for capitulation? In principle, this could have been done earlier. Iran has never represented a sufficiently sig...

The United States is considering the option of seizing Iranian ports and deploying troops on small islands in the Persian Gulf in order to secure navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. This was repo...

As missiles struck some of the most critical oil and gas facilities in the Persian Gulf, sending shockwaves through global energy markets, Azerbaijan found itself aligned — not militarily, but politic...

For more than three decades, relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey have been defined by a phrase that carries both political and emotional meaning: “One nation, two states.” The slogan symbolizes a...

The emergence of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader has further heightened tensions in an already expanding regional conflict. His first aggressive statement on Thursday signaled that Tehran ap...

The widening conflict between Iran and a U.S.–Israeli coalition is showing signs of turning into a prolonged regional war, as initial expectations in Washington that air strikes would quickly weaken T...

Wars often begin with maximalist slogans and end with far more prosaic calculations: whether the minimum set of objectives has been achieved, whether the costs remain acceptable, and whether the campa...

The drone strike on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave on March 5 prompted sharply different responses from the United States and Russia, revealing competing diplomatic approaches to the growing tensions...

The specter of state collapse in the Middle East often brings to mind a single image: the descent of Syria into civil war after 2011. Cities reduced to ruins, foreign powers fighting through their pro...

The war engulfing Iran is rapidly transforming the strategic landscape of the South Caucasus. For Azerbaijan, the conflict unfolding to its south is not simply another episode of Middle Eastern instab...

The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in American and Israeli strikes on Tehran has plunged the country into its deepest political crisis since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, se...

For weeks, the governments of the Persian Gulf walked a diplomatic tightrope. Publicly and in private, they urged restraint in Washington. Envoys shuttled between capitals. Messages were passed quiet...

Early in the morning on February 28, the United States and Israel launched missile strikes on Iranian territory.

In 1926, delegates gathered in Baku for the First Turkological Congress and debated a question that would outlive empires and ideological blocs: could the Turkic world one day share a common alphabet?...