For three decades, Turkey’s terrorist threat has been viewed largely through the lens of Kurdish militancy. Yet just as one front closes down,[1] a new hazard has emerged, primarily as a result of the current war in Syria. On May 11,...

   A month ago Obama administration officials promised to deliver arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels in the hope of reversing the tide of a war that had turned against an embattled opposition.   But interviews with American, Western and Middle...

“I am coming down in 5 minutes. No! Wait, I need to see you before we go to my family. He comes in and I expectbad news. What happened? My brother! Dead?! He cries and hands me his iphone to read a skype conference with his brother in Syria.” His brother is serving in the...

For months, the western rural region of Homs was an unusual model of coexistence in Syria's brutal two-year-old civil war. Now, it risks becoming a dark episode in the country's deepening sectarian conflict. Syria's uprising-turned-war has forced most Syrians to take sides in a struggle that...