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Shias in Turkey are quite different than other Shias of Middle East. First they are called Alevis. They are mostly Kemalists and loyal to Turkey. Some minority of them are radical leftist, not fond of Turkey, but would hate mullahs even more. Now 10 percent of Alevis are Kurds, and i'm guessing...

Striking Houthis from above won't solve the problem, everyone have been doing it for years. What it takes to defeat them is to send there a big competent ground force and fight face to face. Unfortunately KSA and UAE forces are not competent, neither all the forces they paid to fight for them.

Problem is, Iran and its militias are a big source of instability in the region. They have been targetting pro-west countries in Middle East. Except Israel, these countries are kind of paper tigers, powerful on paper but militarily incompetent in reality, no matter how well they are armed...

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As you know there is a rapprochement effort between Turkey and Israel, Egypt, KSA, UAE. All they have in common is their anti-Iran stance. Most of them suffer from Iran backed forces in Middle East. I believe they need Turkey's help against Iran and its militias. Will Turkey fully oppose Iran...

On Feb. 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that his country will expand its cross-border operations against Kurdish militants in Iraq after the killing of 13 kidnapped Turkish citizens. Speaking to a gathering of supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said the probe would cover events in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since June 2014. Last month, the...

https://defencehub.live/threads/mohammed-bin-salman%E2%80%99s-dissatisfaction-regarding-uae-and-turkey%E2%80%99s-rapprochement.11917/

Diplomatic sources revealed intense dissatisfaction of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the recent rapprochement of the United Arab Emirates with Turkey. Media Line reported that bin Salman was distraught with the speed of restoring relations between Ankara and Abu Dhabi. There is a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/us/politics/russia-ukraine-invasion-pretext.html

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/01/the-houthis-have-won-in-yemen-what-next/