Turkey’s recent policies in Syria are emblematic of the way a middle power can exert influence in its region, sometimes outmaneuvering seemingly stronger players. Throughout Syria’s civil war, which ...

TURKEY became the Middle East’s most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln’s vision and ...

WSJ breaks down how it happened—and what comes next for Syria and the Middle East. Illustration: Madeline Marshall DUBAI—Turkey and Israel are the main strategic beneficiaries of the collapse ...

On a macro level, Hassan said, “Erdogan’s ambitions are deeply rooted in a neo-Ottoman Empire vision that seeks to reassert Ankara as a dominant power ... Middle East, said a stronger Syria ...

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and the rise of Turkey as a resurgent ... regime has shattered the Middle East status quo. Once a linchpin for Iranian power projection into the Levant ...