Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.

Syria’s future depends on a historic undertaking: facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes in a country ...

Hopes for a resumption oil flows have been buoyed by the Iraqi parliament’s approval last week of a budget amendment.

Finding common ground with Turkey will be critical to Syria’s transition. Security continues to deteriorate in northeast ...

Top diplomats as well as Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi defense and intelligence chiefs aim to hold a first security ...

The recent seismic disturbances in the Aegean have sparked significant concern in Turkey, as new research suggests an ...

The Kurdish-led SDF was formed to fight the extremists, and in 2019, SDF fighters captured the last sliver of land they held, ...

In fact, his aides and allies took pains to describe his initial flurry of executive activity as “shock and awe,” reviving an ...

On the evening of Thursday 30 January 2025, the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...