The United States and its allies against the Islamic State face a major choice in its next target: the Iraqi city of Mosul, or the IS “capital” of Raqqa.

Why does Russia always seem to be a step ahead of the U.S. in Syria? The answer is simple: Moscow knows exactly what it wants, and the U.S. doesn’t.

Some guesses as to what exactly transpired in this week’s high-stakes standoff between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin.

Successes in the campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria are creating opportunities for the United States to shift the momentum of the conflict.

Fresh off his party’s stunning election victory, will Erdogan get in the way of U.S. plans, or work with Washington toward a grand bargain on Syria and Iraq?

Humanitarian “safe zones” are a great idea in theory. But they’re a bad, dangerous idea in the context of the Syrian civil war.

Turkey is gearing up for two months of intense, no-holds-barred electioneering, in which anything could happen.

Turkish voters just delivered a strong rebuke to Erdogan and the AKP at the polls, but that doesn’t mean he’s given up on his plans.

Turkey’s push for peace with the Kurds is laudable, but politics and bad timing may doom the whole effort to collapse.

President Obama has reportedly ordered a review of his administration’s Syria strategy. Here’s what his advisers will probably tell him.