After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the many Turkish channels. Most show the same heated discussions. The so-called ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its ...

Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

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The original plan was for the US Army to establish a large northern front in Kurdistan and advance southward into Saddam’s Iraq in cooperation with a simultaneous ... toward the Turkish border.

As David Kenner at Foreign Policy documented in September, groups such as Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusra Front, both known Al Qaeda affiliates, have begun fighting with ...

A high pressure system over the Tasman Sea currently extends a ridge into northeastern New South Wales, while a trough moves over southern and central districts. This trough is bringing unsettled ...