Surrounded by rivals amid a collapsing economy, the Turkish president is facing the longest odds of his life. 

There’s something farcical—but entirely rational—about the way authoritarians such as Egypt’s Sisi invoke legal justifications for repression.

Iraq and Egypt show how hard it is to get rid of a militarized security force.

Evidence is growing that Turkey’s president is ailing—and that could be bad news for the country’s politics.

Twenty years after 9/11, U.S. policy in the Middle East is still based on a fundamental mistake.