Türkiye fears spillover effects of US-Iran war

Ankara fears a refugee influx, economic disruption, and a Kurdish dimension as the US and Israel escalate their attacks

Omer Onhon

Khamenei’s Face-Saving Exercise

[caption id="attachment_55244469" align="alignnone" width="594"] A security officer walks past a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the registration of presidential candidates…

Alex Vatanka

Libya's Most Vulnerable

[caption id="attachment_55244453" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Libyan Amazigh Berber boy takes part in a protest outside the prime minister's office in Tripoli on November 27, 2011. (mahmud…

Tasbeeh Herwees

C'est La Vie in Sana'a

[caption id="attachment_55244330" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A Yemeni soldier searches a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the US embassy compound in Sana'a on August 4, 2013. …

Abubakr Al-Shamahi

Prospects for Kurdish Peace

[caption id="attachment_55244317" align="alignnone" width="592"] A masked Kurdish boy flashes the 'V for victory' sign while another holds a flag showing a portrait of PKK jailed leader Abdullah…

Nicholas Birch

The Rise of Sisi

[caption id="attachment_55244260" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian opponents of deposed president Mohamed Mursi hold up a poster of army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on July 26, 2013,…

Rana Taha

Amman’s Brotherhood Unshaken

[caption id="attachment_55244281" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jordanian protesters from the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and other opposition…

Majid Al-Amir

The Ahmadinejad Years

[caption id="attachment_55244224" align="alignnone" width="592"] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a news conference on June 18, 2005 in Tehran, Iran. Moderate cleric Akbar Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad went…

David Patrikarakos

Tunisia's Militant Struggle

[caption id="attachment_55244006" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisians paint a banner on July 30, 2013, in front of the Constituent Assembly headquarters against the country's Islamist government…

Tam Hussein

A Turkish Helping Hand

[caption id="attachment_55243987" align="alignnone" width="620"] : A file picture dated 1992 shows Abdallah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) with his guerillas at a training camp…

Stephen Starr