Sharaa’s visit to Baku last weekend highlighted a dramatic shift in regional alliances, prompting a mix of concern, suspicion, and strategic recalculation across Iranian media.

Iran’s accusations — that Azerbaijan has played a role in Israeli military operations — lack credible evidence and appear to be part of an information warfare strategy. Opinion.

Caught between allies and neighbors, Azerbaijan is walking a diplomatic tightrope amid Israeli strikes on Iran, balancing security partnerships, ethnic ties, and regional interests to avoid conflict spillover and backlash.

Diplomatic source says Syrian leader won't attend meeting in Baku, which will focus on 'the recent Israeli military presence in Syria'

The recent 12-day military confrontation between Iran and Israel not only intensified tensions across the Middle East but also reverberated well beyond the region, affecting neighbouring states and sensitive border zones.

Azerbaijan and Syria's leaders have pledged to strengthen ties, focusing on energy cooperation. On Saturday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev welcomed Syria's interim leader Ahmad Al-Sharaa in Baku.

Discussion topics to includ the security agreement to be signed between Israel & Syria, the Iranian threat, Hezbollah's weapons, the weapons of Palestinian militias, the Palestinians camps in Lebanon

The meeting marked a major step for the two countries which have been foes for decades, and comes after Israel initially cold-shouldered Sharaa's administration as jihadist because of his past links t

A Syrian and an Israeli official are expected to meet in Baku later Saturday on the sidelines of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's visit to Azerbaijan, a diplomatic source in Damascus with knowledge of the issue said.

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