Iraq could become a new flashpoint of tensions between Turkey and Iran, as shifting geopolitical dynamics continue to reshape the Middle East. Over the past year, Israel’s military successes against ...

Iraq is forging ahead with the construction of a wall it is building along its 600-kilometer border with Syria. Even though, in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, walls have been shown to ...

With a population exceeding 30 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state. Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been ...

Pinar Dinc is the principal investigator of the ECO-Syria project, which receives funding from the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for Advanced ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani sit together during their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, April 22, 2024 (pool photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye via AP). Iraq ...