When Hezbollah was first designated a terrorist group by the United States, many in academia and media still clung to a ...

Iraqi territory has often been a proxy field for others’ battles. But as Turkey talks with the Kurds, and the U.S. engages ...

Israel is likely concerned that any power vacuum could be problematic, with alarm bells being raised over Turkey’s role in Syria rather than that of Iran.

It was hard to miss the note of alarm in a Hill headline on “Neo-Ottoman Turkey’s triumph over its regional rivals.” “Turkey,” Washington policy analyst Andrew Latham warned, “has carved out a new ...

Non-state armed actors are an integral part of interactions in the Middle East, having emerged as a result of accumulating and worsening internal conflicts ...

Iran cannot deter Israel. Israel’s military and covert capabilities have had free rein to take on the Islamic Republic and its partners. Iran’s deterrence failure has brought the regime to an ...

The world benefits immensely. A Syria beyond Iran’s reach weakens Tehran’s terror network, from Lebanon to Yemen. It ...

Buldan and Onder have been among those to visit the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in a bid to build a ... the weakening of the Hezbollah militant movement in Lebanon and ...

The recent PKK ceasefire came against the backdrop of fundamental changes in the region, including the reconfiguration of ...