Great East

Military hostilities between the United States and Iran intensified again on July 14 following a series of reciprocal strikes and a further escalation of tensions over the Strait of Hormuz. The United...

Since the mid-2020s, Eurasia has been undergoing a period of profound geopolitical transformation. The Russia–Ukraine war, the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan and the rise of the Tali...

Twenty years ago, on July 13, 2006, the official inauguration of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) Main Export Oil Pipeline at the Turkish port of Ceyhan was far more than the commissioning of a new energ...

The report by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet that Ankara has decided to transfer its Russian-made S-400 air defense systems to one of the Gulf states could prove to be one of the most symbolic develop...

Why the Ceasefire Between the United States and Iran May Prove to Be Only a Brief Pause When United States President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, many saw it as a...

Iran is set to hold the funeral ceremony of its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on July 4, following his death on February 28 in a United States airstrike on Tehran. Mourning ceremonies are scheduled to t...

Israel’s decision to recognise the mass death of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide is not merely a historical gesture. It is also a political signal — one aimed not at Yerevan, but p...

Why the New Clash Between the United States and Iran Is Changing the Logic of the Crisis The new United States strikes on Iranian territory on June 28 were not merely another episode in the exchange o...

The cancellation of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s trip to Switzerland and the postponement of the June 19 meeting with the Iranian delegation have become the first serious indication that the new U...

How the U.S.–Iran Deal Is Reshaping the Oil Market and What It Means for Azerbaijan The signing of a memorandum between the United States and Iran in Versailles and the effective lifting of the blocka...

When President Donald Trump of the United States announced Thursday morning, standing beside French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles, that he had signed a memorandum of understand...

The Memorandum as a Point of De-escalation The memorandum of understanding signed between the United States and Iran on June 14, 2026, has become one of the most significant diplomatic events of the y...

Three and a half months after the start of the war, and on the day of his 80th birthday, US President Donald Trump announced that an agreement with Iran had been reached. The main mediator, Pakistan,...

Why the Washington–Tehran Memorandum Could Redraw the Strategic Map of the Middle East If a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran is signed in Geneva in the coming days, it wi...

Could Herat Become for the Taliban What Mahsa Amini Became for Iran? When armed morality police officers appeared on the streets of Herat on Tuesday, few could have imagined that the detention of seve...

There are wars that redraw maps. There are wars that topple governments. And then there are wars that fundamentally change how nations will fight in the future.