I first got the opportunity to watch USAID work up close and personal in 2007, when I deployed to Iraq as commander of the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Imperialist and regional powers are helping the new regime gain international legitimacy by giving the impression that it has put its al-Qaeda past behind it, and they are also endeavouring to gain ...

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 ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...

Washington’s decadelong relationship with Kurdish-led forces in Syria is opposed by Turkey. Ankara says the People’s Defense ...

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said NATO needs to take seriously Turkey's expansionist ambitions and President ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

NOLANVILLE – It has been more than two decades since Sara Orosco decided to join the U.S. Army and soon found herself carrying a rifle into combat during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now a mother ...