Future conflicts may be decoupled from oil shocks, giving Western powers more freedom to engage politically in the region ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

The Time for Coercive Diplomacy – Notwithstanding the normal volatility of the Middle East, the rapid and fluid nature of ...

If Iran does go nuclear, other countries in and around the Middle East may well follow suit, including Saudi Arabia and ...

Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, ...

The Middle East is teetering on the edge of a broad regional war. On June 12, Israel began a sustained bombing campaign against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, regime leadership, and oil and gas depots ...

Israel, Russia, Turkey, and the United States have all deployed troops in Syria since 2011. How long will they stay in the ...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to step up the production of medium- and long-range missiles in a ...

The Middle East’s main power brokers, including the Arab states, Iran, Israel, and Turkey, have historically resisted domination by one regional actor. When the Arab world was reaching for primacy ...

F OR much of the past century, as the Kurds dreamed of autonomy in Turkey and the Middle East, armed groups drove the agenda. Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the largest such group, the ...

Turkey and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) held direct talks on Syria’s future last week, with US facilitation, sources familiar with the issue told Middle East Eye.. The parties discussed ...