What binds Israel and its new Arab allies is not the threat from Iran but the threat of the U.S. military leaving the Middle East.

Why Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s push to turn the structure into a mosque is such a loss

Emergency contagion measures are quickly eroding democracy worldwide.

A newly released trove of Iranian intelligence communiqués demonstrates the deeper folly of U.S. adventurism in the Middle East.

The U.S. didn't give its NATO ally many advance details on the raid that killed the ISIS leader. There may be a good reason why.

While coverage has focused on the plight of Kurds, more Syrian locals and NGO workers face arrest and torture in the vacuum Trump created.

The best time to get atomic weapons out was several years ago. The second best time is now.

Since Nixon, presidential pundits and sycophants have tried to rationalize executive insanity. But no one was prepared for Trump’s Syria madness.

Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.

Why would the Saudi crown prince want the journalist dead?

The Trump administration is feuding with Erdogan's government over American pastor Andrew Brunson. But behind the particulars of this case, there's also a new geopolitical reality to reckon with.

The resignation of German soccer star Mesut Özil isn't just about racism in the soccer establishment. It's a case study in how Western countries talk about immigration and identity.

In an election that will give its winner unprecedented powers, Turkey's formerly weak opposition has banded together, using the authoritarian president's own tools against him.

Sure: dictators do, too. But development stats, properly weighted, can be a tool for change.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was once an athlete. Now, he uses sport for his own purposes—even as fans use it to express dissent.

Can America change the way it takes care of kids?

How politics and culture in America look from Istanbul today

What the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh tells us about dissent in the Narendra Modi era.