The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars that always seem to invite more problems.
Syrian Kurdish rebels and the new Syrian government have agreed to reunite peacefully. The U.S. military may have helped broker the agreement.
The Trump administration’s math on Middle Eastern energy supplies just doesn’t add up.
The president says he wants peace in the Middle East. But his plans are all over the place.
The government has given itself special powers to deal with crimes that it could already prosecute.
Turkey is taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to crush the Kurdish-led anti-authoritarian uprising. And it's not clear what the U.S. wants.
The CIA spent four years trying to overthrow the Syrian government. It failed. But a former leader of Al Qaeda might do it in a few weeks.
Washington quietly funded Israeli-Iranian proxy wars for years. Now American men and women are directly involved.
In Statelet of Survivors, Amy Austin Holmes shows why the Syrian Kurdish revolution is no longer just for Kurds.
Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.
They have been loyal allies and need an exit strategy too
Ankara and Istanbul have faced multiple attacks from a PKK off-shoot as well as ISIS.
Kentucky's junior senator courts the hawks.
Kurdish militants want legal protections from military attacks while withdrawing
Turkey working to end 28-year insurgency
While former BP CEO Tony Heyward is working for the Kurds
Fighters seek autonomy in southeast. Villagers flee homes.
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