Tag: Kurds
Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and...
Shukriya Bradost, Virginia Tech
The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into...
Trump’s lifting of Syria sanctions is a win for Turkey, too...
Hyeran Jo, Texas A&M University and Ece Göztepe Çelebi, Bilkent University
President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia...
Trouble on the Belarus-Poland border: What you need to know about...
Tatsiana Kulakevich, University of South Florida
Using migrants as pawns is perhaps nothing new. But rarely do you have...
Pope’s upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians...
Ramazan Kılınç, University of Nebraska Omaha
Pope Francis will arrive in Iraq on Friday in a first-ever papal visit...
Why the US has nuclear weapons in Turkey – and may...
Miles A. Pomper, Middlebury
As the Syrian crisis pits Turkish troops against former U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, Pentagon officials have been reviewing plans to remove 50...
Is it ever a good idea to arm violent nonstate actors?
Patricia Sullivan, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
In May, President Donald Trump authorized a plan to arm the YPG, a Kurdish militia...
Turkish referendum grants more power to Erdogan: Democracy no more?
Doga Ulas Eralp, American University School of International Service
Turkey’s April 16 referendum will be long remembered as a turning point in the...
US ups pressure on allies as strategy for fighting Islamic State...
By Christian Emery, Plymouth University
Less than a month since Barack Obama went to the American public with his strategy for defeating the Islamic State...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
