An upcoming meeting designed to facilitate Israeli-Turkish reconciliation has been postponed until late April, as worries deepen that backsliding by top Turkish officials may delay or even scuttle rapprochement between the two countries. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was maneuvered last month by U.S. officials into accepting reconciliation terms that he had...

Secretary of State John Kerry met Sunday with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu amid increasing concerns that Ankara is backsliding on commitments it made to Israel during a phone call arranged last month by President Barack Obama to facilitate rapprochement between Turkey and the Jewish state: Eager to smooth the path...

Zero progress: Negotiations over Iran’s disputed nuclear program broke off on Saturday without signs of even incremental progress… The failure to reach any accord was a serious setback for the talks… After the conclusion of two days of tense bargaining, Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said that...

Today’s P5+1 talks with Iran in Almaty, Kazakhstan ended without progress, as Western diplomats expressed frustration not just over Iranian intransigence but over what appears to be a kind of unseriousness regarding the details of the P5+1’s offer. A Western diplomat described to The Tower gaps not just in agreeing...

Syria is lashing out at Turkey and Jordan, accusing both countries of providing material and logistical assistance to opposition forces seeking to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime. The accusation is more or less accurate inasmuch as Turkey and Jordan are assisting the rebels. Syria state television, citing reports in The New...

The P5+1 began its latest round of talks with Iran today in Kazakhstan. Analysts worry that Iran will agree to temporarily suspend its enrichment – some leaks have indicated that the target timeframe is for six months – only to use the time to build up its critical nuclear infrastructure. The result...