Ahmed Meiloud, researcher with Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts Although the Islamic State (IS) remains enigmatic, its past comportment gives an indication of what it would ...

What possible outcome for the Syrian Civil War More likely the country will break up in parts , Kurdish in the North, Alawite on the Coast, Sunni in the Middle. ...

On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Turkey’s longest- ruling prime minister, won the country’s first direct presidential election. He will now change hats, moving from one executive position to another, but ...

As ISIS keeps advancing on the ground in Iraq, the hardline jihadi militants have revived with a vengeance one of the oldest conflicts there is: the rift between the Sunnis ...

Vladimir Putin has a very clear strategy in Ukraine: first, sow panic among Ukrainians and the West and then wait, then provoke Ukrainians into doing things that distance them from ...

Summary With Turkey and Russia now at odds, Central Asia’s prevailing attitude toward Turkey has changed in recent months. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to visit Turkmenistan in ...

Despite Russian reassurances that Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern frontier is for a military exercise, its growing scale is making U.S. officials nervous about its ultimate aim. President Barack ...