Iran wants to increase the accuracy of its range and the overall number of its ballistic missiles. Information ...

In Netanyahu’s revised map of the Middle East, occupied Palestine was conspicuous by its absence. The past year has demonstrated the folly of this warped vision. For this renewed popular ...

Following Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent strikes into Israel from Hezbollah and Iran, the Middle East is at the brink of region-wide war.

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

because that is his ticket to wiping Palestine off the map.” The final weeks of the presidential race have coincided with the looming threat of further escalation in the Middle East, adding an ...

The US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had famously declared just a week before the attacks: “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” A year on ...

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Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and author of "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China." As conflict spreads in the Middle ...

As smuggling rings made billions from migrants, the U.S. was sidelined ...

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar sought to remake the Middle East with last year’s attack on Israel, dragging Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and much of the region into what he foresaw as a decisive ...

No matter what political or military changes we see in the Middle East by 7 October 2025, it will certainly be a more fragmented region. No individual power will create more coherence than the ...

Yet by Oct. 7, 2024, the world’s attention was back on Israel’s conflict with Iran—the contest that had replaced Palestinians as the fulcrum of the Middle East. Having over 11 months ...