The only way to end the possibility that the Iranians will decide to go nuclear—which could set off a very unstable chain reaction of nuclear proliferation in the region, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and ...

Viewing Turkey–Israel dynamics through a zero-sum lens risks fuelling strategic miscalculations and regional instability.

US currently maintains 19 facilities across the region, with at least 8 reported to be permanent, across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq ...

The U.S. bombed Iran overnight, raising tensions across the region as attention shifts to how Tehran may retaliate and location of U.S. military in the region.

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

The latest war in the Middle East was, both in terms of the course it took and its outcomes, resembles an earthquake. This is the latest of the earthquakes to hit the region: the 1967 war, the 1973 ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

Those passengers were relatively lucky, compared with the thousands who had already spent hours in the air and were simply ...

Iran’s internal weakness has encouraged attacks before. Some 45 years ago, amid its post-revolutionary disarray, Saddam ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and human ...

My first question in the aftermath of Sunday morning’s strike on Iran is: Does President Donald Trump understand whose side ...

The U.S. bombed Iran overnight, raising tensions across the region as attention shifts to how Tehran may retaliate and location of U.S. military in the region.