Francis J. Ricciardone is an Atlantic Council Vice President and the Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. Aaron Stein is a Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/francis-j-ricciardone-aaron-stein/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Religious & Ethnic Groups Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Francis J. Ricciardone & Aaron Stein https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/25/mitigating-u-s-turkish-disagreement-over-the-pyd https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/25/mitigating-u-s-turkish-disagreement-over-the-pyd If the battle against ISIS is ever to succeed, the U.S. and Turkey must bridge their steadily widening divide regarding the role of Syrian Kurds in the fight against the extremists, write Francis Ricciardone and Aaron Stein.