Syria

Online forums offer a great deal of information about the small but growing jihadist role in the Syrian conflict.

Syria's errant mortar strike is an opportunity for Washington to support Turkey in a more aggressive approach to the ongoing crisis next door.

Given Obama and Erdogan's divergent policies on Syria, a storm between them appears almost unavoidable.

Reporting about violence in the Middle East often focuses on Islamic extremists, and this is increasingly true for much of the coverage of Syria's uprising. But in the Syrian political opposition, Islamic extremism is truly the exception that proves the rule. The vast majority of Syrian opposition activists, according to

The growing refugee zones straddling the border could force Turkey to voice its demands for direct U.S. and international assistance on the Syria crisis.

One of the unintended consequences of the Arab Spring has been the PKK's reemergence as a player in Iran-Syria-Turkey relations.

Washington must act promptly to ensure that turmoil in Syria does not weaken U.S. allies in neighboring Lebanon.

As the Syrian conflict intensifies, the area under full government control continues to shrink; the question now is the speed of the regime's descent.

Clinton's trip may be a way of conveying U.S. determination to prevent the Syria crisis from sucking the region into disaster.