No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to more than 3m Syrian refugees, and wants Syria to be safe enough for many to return.

The kingdom is wasting no time filling the void in the Middle East left by a crippled Iran, which has seen its proxies destroyed, its enemies emboldened and its regional influence decimated.

Riyadh: Both Saudi Arabia and Turkey are influential Muslim countries in the Arab world. While Saudi Arabia leads Muslim countries due to the OIC and Mecca-Medina, Turkey does not accept this.

Despite supporting the armed opposition in the earlier parts of the Syrian civil war, Turkey and Saudi Arabia soon found themselves competing in Syria. Assad’s fall opens a new chapter.

The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the Gulf Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia. This struggle, steeped in sectarian and strategic divides, fueled proxy wars and power struggles across the region.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE have expressed support for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, calling for the withdrawal of Israeli forces, the return of displaced Palestinians, and unhindered humanitarian aid to Gaza.

During the tour, the two sides discussed ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in various fields, in addition to the latest developments on the regional and international arenas and the efforts made i

Saudi Arabia is among the countries taking a more cautious approach to Syria’s new administration than Turkey and Qatar, which were the first to reopen embassies in Damascus after Assad’s fall, said Umer Karim, an expert on Saudi politics at the ...

But Germany's foreign minister said sanctions against “Assad’s henchmen who committed serious crimes” must remain in place.

Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for the lifting of sanctions on Syria after meetings with top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe that focused on the war-ravaged country's future.The Gulf kingdom,

In the overseas market, L&T received an order for LNG equipment for a project in the United States, one of its largest LNG project orders. The company also secured an order for a loop reactor at a Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) Polypropylene (PP) plant in Turkey.

Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least eight Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a ‘large-scale and significant military operation’.