Washington and Jerusalem have kept a watchful eye on Damascus ever since the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime by Sunni Muslim rebels in December. Of greatest concern has been the level of ...

The strike came a day after other explosive-laden drone attacks were reported elsewhere in Kurdistan, including at an airport ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

Friar Francesco Patton, the outgoing Franciscan custos of the Holy Land, reflects on his nine years in office and proposed a ...

Genetic materials from skeletons were analyzed to find that Jews and Arabs in Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon had Bronze Age ...

Turkish President Erdogan has made it clear that the agreement between Ankara and the Kurdish Workers Party was motivated by ...

Everyone seems to agree that ISIS is digging up and selling archaeological artifacts to make money. But no one seems to agree on how much money it’s actually making from its illegal antiquities trade: ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete step in an effort to ...

I am sure you have felt it — that massive shift in how we live, work, and create in the years following 2020. When it comes ...

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to welcome Amb. David Hale as a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow. One of the most ...