kurdistan

The Trump administration’s not-so-charm offensive may have steered U.S.-Turkey relations away from the brink of collapse. That’s no cause for a victory lap just yet.

The real threat to Turkey isn’t the Kurds. It’s the Islamic State.

Turkey’s Islamist president is the first civilian with control over his country’s military – and you can tell by the results.

Russia's highly-touted peace conference to end the war in Syria was an utter debacle.

Fighting between two vital U.S. allies will only strengthen Assad and Iran.

America’s partners are at each other’s throats, and Washington doesn’t have a plan to pull them apart.

Kurdish officials once dreamed of forging their own state out of the ashes of the war against the Islamic State. Now they are fighting for their very survival.

And there’s no indication that, despite Mohammed bin Salman’s bold moves, Saudi Arabia stands a chance of turning the tide.

The United States needs to put a stop to this flashpoint before it’s too late.

Without a plan for countering Iranian and Russian interests in Eastern Syria, the administration could find itself in a very bad place in the Middle East.

A month after its independence referendum, Iraqi Kurdistan is seeing its economic future threatened.

The war against the Islamic State concealed the Kurds' political and economic weaknesses. The loss of Kirkuk has made them impossible to ignore.