Turkey

The Iranian regime remains firmly in the crosshairs of American bombers. As President Trump mulls whether to strike, Turkey is using every available channel to halt a military intervention. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has personally offered to mediate between Tehran and Washington. At the same time, Turkish authorities have tightened their grip on exiled Iranian opposition figures. Turkey’s sudden support for Iran is not born of friendship. Over the past two decades, the two countries have repeatedly found themselves on opposing sides. In the Syrian civil war, Iran sent Shi’a proxies to prop up the dictator Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey armed and trained Sunni rebel groups. Ankara’s push for dialogue

Intelligence about the activities of Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese Islamists will rapidly implicate Qatar and Turkey as the Brotherhood’s key international sponsors

The President has pushed through an agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia that will carry his name

Ahmed al-Sharaa is the former al-Qaeda and ISIS firebrand turned interim leader of Syria

‘I always knew that if I stood my ground, for all of you, that I would be a target. And a target I became’

So, too, does the collapse in public trust for America’s most powerful law enforcement agencies