The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the ...

As the U.S. will retain major regional military assets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, Turkey will become a backwater and a Cold War relic, redundant, with Washington instead increasingly focused ...

He had been dreaming of going back home ever since arriving in Turkey in the summer of 2014. To soothe his panic attacks in ...

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Changes in Turkey, the United States, and global politics since the end of the Cold War require a re-evaluation of the U.S.-Turkey relationship. As the president of the Council on Foreign ...

For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the Gulf ... The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and the rise of Turkey as a resurgent power have ...