Turkish President Erdoğan announced this week that Turkey would terminate its pipeline agreement with Iraq, effective in one year. The move followed a painful agreement between the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over revenue-sharing. This would normally have led to the reopening of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which was shut down following an arbitration ruling against Turkey in March 2023.

On July 16, Israeli warplanes bombed parts of Damascus, including the defense ministry and a site near the presidential palace. While the Israeli government claims that its recent airstrikes in Syria are meant to protect the Druze minority, the absence of similar interventions during the bloodiest years of the Syrian civil war suggests that more is at play.

As tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated across military and political dimensions, a quieter but critical component has re-emerged: cyber operations. Over the past month, both countries have used digital tools alongside conventional weapons—not as decisive game-changers, but as supplements to broader military strategies.

İsrail’in hava saldırıları İran’ın iç istikrarını da hedef alıyor. Uzmanlarımız bu sürecin rejim değişikliğine evrilip evrilmeyeceğini değerlendirdi.

İsrail, 13 Haziran 2025’te İran’ın nükleer ve askeri altyapısına yönelik geniş çaplı bir hava saldırısı düzenleyerek çok sayıda hedefi vurdu; aralarında üst düzey generaller ve nükleer bilimcilerin de bulunduğu onlarca kişi öldü. Operasyon, İran’ın nükleer kapasitesini kalıcı olarak ortadan kaldırmayı amaçlarken, Tahran’ın nükleer silah geliştirme konusunda siyasi bir karar alma eşiğine gelmiş olabileceği endişelerini de artırdı.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced a landmark deal with two American companies, HKN Energy and WesternZagros, to develop oil and gas fields in northern Iraq. Nonetheless, the government in Baghdad promptly declared the deal null and void, while the KRG maintained that it was both legal and legitimate under Iraq’s constitution.

This report analyzes Turkey’s vision for Syria following the fall of the Assad family and the rise of the HTS under the leadership of Ahmad al-Sharaa. In this regard, it focuses on the foreign actors that, alongside Turkey, now have the greatest ability to shape Syria’s future: namely the United States and Israel.