A secret meeting between a Turkish spymaster and a Kurdish militant leader on a prison island—it’s a dramatic scene, and a promising sign of rapprochement between two old enemies.

With the writing on the wall for the moderate rebels in Syria, we may be seeing the beginnings of the next stage in the conflict.

In the latest sign of European anti-Semitism, Gaza protests pressured a British supermarket to pull Kosher foods from its shelves.

The rescuers of the Yazidis weren’t just any Kurds—they were PKK, and their presence is making an impact on the conflict in northern Iraq.

A surprisingly chaste summer protest in France.

Maliki’s decision to step down shows that the Iraqi political system is not wholly broken. What if it were still under American protection and guidance?

“I’m getting good with these bombs,” writes the twenty-year-old British jihadist.

Kurdish oil shipments remain in limbo, while the underfunded and -supplied peshmerga struggle to fend off ISIS. Now the Turks say it is time for the U.S. to let the Kurds sell openly.

“We have experience” of Indonesians returning as terrorists from Afghanistan, and don’t want to repeat it with ISIS, officials said.

Government forces are on the verge of trapping the Syrian Free Army in Aleppo for a siege the rebels probably can’t win. This could be the beginning of the end for Syria’s moderates.