NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

Ankara is reaching out to the Kurdish population at home while Turkish-backed militias fight the Kurds in Syria. What is ...

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

Iran is reeling from a cratering economy and stinging military setbacks across its sphere of influence in the Middle East ...

The Syrian shrine of Sayeda Zainab drew Iran-backed militiamen from throughout the region. With Assad's fall, they've fled, ...

The sources also relay that Iran moved its mobile missile systems and heavy artillery into Iraq’s Kurdistan region to avoid Israeli strikes. Iraqi Prime Minister al Sudani objected and was told ...

Israel developed a plan with its then-close ally, Iran, which was interested in using the Kurds as leverage to force Iraq into relinquishing strategic islands and waterways. The two countries sent ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

A subset of academics, including individuals from Turkish, Iranian, Arab, far-left Kurdish, and European backgrounds, has increasingly shaped discussions within the network. In some instances ...

But the SDF did not join in. In a statement ... spread mainly across several Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq, Iran, ...

part of what is now Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, estimating that there were “no less than 100” people buried in the grave. Following Iraq’s deadly war with Iran in the 1980s ...