Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan'ani announced the country's readiness to provide aid to the quake-hit areas of Syria and Turkey if needed.

Saying that Iraq has become a meeting place for the parties with different views, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani stressed that Baghdad will try to improve relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held on Thursday a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the situation in Syria and cooperation in transport and energy.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is scheduled to pay a visit to Turkey tomorrow, Tuesday, January 17.

The 19th meeting of the Iran-Turkey joint consular commission was held in the Iranian capital on Sunday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a press conference in Damascus along with his Syrian counterpart that Iran played a role in preventing the looming Turkey's operation in northern Syria.

Iraqi Kurdistan said it was suspending oil exports through Turkey as a precaution after a deadly earthquake rocked its northern neighbor and Syria before dawn on Monday, Agence France-Presse reported.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and a U.S. military delegation along with the U.S. consul general in the Kurdistan Region, on Sunday discussed reforms within the Peshmerga ministry.

The Erbil court announced in a ruling that Lahur Sheikh Jangi is still the co-chairman of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on Thursday urged the ruling parties in the Kurdistan region to set aside their differences and find swift compromises for fiscal, administrative, security, and electoral disagreements.

A delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will be visiting the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to resume talks with the Iraqi federal government, KRG spokesperson Gutiar Adel said on Thursday.

A Turkish base in northern Iraq came under rocket attack Wednesday, the autonomous Kurdish region’s counterterrorism services said, with no casualties reported, Agence France-Presse reported.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has come under fire over a massive earthquake that killed more than a thousand people in the country due to its failure to take action despite experts’ earlier warnings.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday, killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus, Egypt and Iraq.

The Syrian Ministry of Health announced the death of 237 people and the injury of 539 others in the governorates of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Tartus due to an earthquake strike on Monday at dawn.

Turkey test-fired a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), newly developed by Roketsan and named Tayfun (typhoon), over the Black Sea on Oct. 18, 2022.

The Turkish interior minister accused the United States and the West on Thursday of waging “psychological war” against Turkey after several states temporarily closed consulates in Istanbul on the grounds of a heightened terror threat.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Public Alliance, which includes his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), would have lost to the country’s opposition bloc if a general election were to have been held in January, according to a survey conducted by Aksoy Research.

The Executive Council of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) issued a call for help for the victims of the earthquake in North and West Kurdistan, Turkey and Syria.

Ten soldiers of the Syrian government forces and three members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS- formerly al-Nusra Front) were reported killed and injured in clashes on Saturday between the two parties in Jabal al-Akrad in north Latakia, northwestern Syria.

The Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS) said on Sunday that they are waiting for Nikolas Granger, US Senior Representative to Northeast Syria, to resume intra-Kurdish talks.

With the threat of a Turkish ground invasion in Syria, the title of chief IS opponent is taking on new importance

Fouza Youssef, a member of the leadership board of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), pointed out the possibility of a ground attack by the Turkish army on Kobani, and stated that the autonomous administration of North and East Syria is ready to face Turkish attacks.

No regional power has tried to oust the Syrian regime as openly as Turkey. Since the start of war in Syria in 2011, Turkey trained and armed opposition groups, hosted millions of Syrian refugees, and in 2020 even directly clashed with regime forces. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called Syrian President Bashar al Assad a “murderer” and called on the international community to hold him accountable.