After last year’s failed coup and Erdogan’s brutal crackdown, our relationship with Turkey has gone south fast.

Sure, the tiny gulf state is a lousy ally — but so is everyone else in the region. 

Victor Argo revisits the persona of longtime Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Nadia Marzouki and Hamza Meddeb question the assumptions behind the claim that Tunisia is a democratic success story. Mal…

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. When al Shabaab, the violent Islamist group in Somalia, took control of the ca…