The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Henri Barkey, CFR’s adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies, and Steven Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Midd…

The benefits of their personal relationship are clear for the Turkish president. But the U.S. president has his reasons, too.

The Kurds have no choice but to always trust the United States—and to suffer the inevitable consequences.

The Turkish president’s war will likely fail because he doesn’t know what he wants.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince will take money from investors in the national oil company—but he’ll be giving up far more than he thinks.

A major new report about the Syrian war raises the question of whether Washington ever cared about it in the first place.

If the United States is done fighting for Saudi Arabia’s oil, it's done fighting for the entire region.

Each week between now and the Iowa caucuses, I’m talking with two experts with differing views on how the United States should handle a foreign policy challenge it faces. These special episodes are p…