While the situation in Afghanistan has stabilised and progress is being made toward a settlement of the Syrian issue, Iraq is now experiencing a series of events that might bring the country to the verge of anarchy at any time. Protesters have taken over the nation’s parliament building for the umpteenth time, making it impossible for the national assembly to ...
Pope Francis made his first foreign trip since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic to Iraq, a country that has been hit with numerous terrorist attacks since Joe Biden took office. Iraq has been plagued by insecurity and crisis since the US-led invasion in 2003, which took millions of lives among its civilians and forced hundreds of thousands into exile. ...
Doğacan Başaran, ANKASAM expert, evaluated the visit of the Pope to United World International. Stating that the Vatican is trying to enforce the “Moderate Islam” project of the West on the states of the region under the “Interfaith Dialogue” discourse, Başaran drew attention to the goals of the Biden administration in the region. The Catholics’ religious leader Pope Francis’s visit ...