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1 – 10 of 156Previous efforts to achieve detente have faltered because of the sheer complexity of the issues at stake: 3.6 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Ankara's military presence in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB288666
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Energy ties, already deep, have expanded since 2022 as part of a broader reorientation of Russian commerce away from the West. The similarly authoritarian leadership styles of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286445
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Russia is encouraging a rapprochement between Turkey and Syria that does not explicitly include Iran, a key economic and military backer of the Damascus government. Tehran worries…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB275797
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TURKEY: Russian talks could stop Syrian invasion
RUSSIA/SYRIA: Push for Turkey deal has stalled
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES276790
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SCO membership will be Tehran’s first experience of a regional defence-security organisation since it withdrew from the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) in 1979. Iran’s defence…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281081
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The meeting would be the two leaders' first in eleven years, as the culmination of a meeting of their defence ministers and intelligence chiefs in Moscow in late December and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB275592
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The growing power of the Russian navy in the Black Sea region.
RUSSIA: Army exercises are meant to challenge NATO
RUSSIA: New Syria base shows Putin's intentions