The U.S. shootdown of a Turkish armed drone in northeastern Syria demonstrates the potential for unintended conflict when so many actors are operating militarily in one space. Türkiye and the United States continue to differ on the prominent role that Kurds play in the U.S.-led effort to suppress Islamic State …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared Israel to be “at war” following a complex and multi-pronged cross-border attack by Hamas into southern Israel on October 7. The sophistication of the attack caught Israeli leaders by surprise and will lead to a reevaluation in terms of the threat to regional security, …

Bulent Kenes, a Turkish journalist who was editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper Today’s Zaman, was arrested in October 2015 for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison for criticizing the president on Twitter. In 2016, an arrest warrant released by Erdogan regime for …