ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed militia, has long been the country’s dominant political force and has formed part of the ...

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Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Netanyahu is the first foreign leader invited to the White House under Trump, and the two will need to work out how to advance the Gaza ceasefire.

The region is quite dynamic, with an intense flurry of diplomatic activity. The Middle East, and specifically Palestine, dominates the agenda. There are areas of convergence and divergence between ...

There was a time—was there not?—when the Left stood for something. A time when the so-called progressives, the self-anointed ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers, an advocacy group ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels ... only targeted ships linked to Israel, the U.S., or the U.K. However, many of the ships attacked had little or no connection, including some ...

Israel's deadly West Bank raids come as Qatari and Egyptian Prime Ministers could start talks over the second phase of the ...

Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said on Tuesday they would limit their Red Sea attacks to vessels linked to Israel during the ceasefire in the Gaza war. The Huthis have been attacking shipping in ...